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| What is Boomer411? | Directory Basics |
| Search Basics | What are Tags? |
| Account Basics | Watchlists |
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What is Boomer411? Boomer411 is a free service that provides the best navigation and search for directories, blogs and websites. Our service adds hierarchical relationships to tagging and merges everybody's hierarchies to bring human intelligence to finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. What previous tagging services did to share favorite sites and pages, hierarchies with tagging does to topic-driven navigation. There are millions of blogs and websites on the web that cover specific topics and Boomer411 can make all their material findable with a better way to explore the web by navigating topics of interest.
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Search Basics You can start and refine searches simply by clicking a word or phrase in the Tags box on the left side of any search page. Each click adds that tag to what was selected previously so the results of your search are narrowed. Only pages which have all the clicked tags are included. You can also enter your search term into the text box at the top of each page. Boomer411 uses auto-complete so as you type a dropdown list of tags which match are displayed for selection. The list is filtered into three groups (your own tags, those used by directories on your watchlist and all other members) and ordered by popularity (that is, how many times used)--relative popularity is indicated by a red block at the left edge, with darkness corresponding to popularity. You can choose to search in only your directory (My Directory), only the directories in your watchlist (My Directory) or in all of Boomer411's public material (All Boomer411) by clicking the scope name above the search text box. You can have the results sorted by popularity or most recently added by clicking the (Big Number) of pages sort by popular | recent selector.
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Account Basics A Boomer411 account contains your profile, membership settings and a directory. The My Account page provides access to configuration choices through which you control the appearance of your directory and settings such as your password and whether other members can send you messages through Boomer411. Your profile page gives other members a higher level view of your interests and includes your Introduction (if you enter one), a top level Topic Navigator, a link to your blog or website, recent (logged in) visitors to your directory and the directories on your watchlist.
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