How to use it?

Rating search results

  You can teach Spacilus to categorize Google search results the way you want it. To categorize a search result click on one of the small symbols to the right of the search result. This will also teach Spacilus how to categorize similar search results in the future. After a short while, Spacilus will have learned to make rather good guesses which will become better and better over time as you continue to teach it.  

  If you change your mind regarding the rating of a particular search result, simply click the same symbol again to revoke your previous rating or click a different symbol to change the search results rating to a better matching category.  

  Please note that when you start to teach Spacilus, the ratings you perform will show to have a huge effect on Spacilus' guesses. For example, rating the first search result on an otherwise unrated search result page might very well make Spacilus guess that all search results of that page belong to the same category.
Take this as what it is: an invitation to correct the guesses and to help make them smarter. After only a short while you will notice that individual ratings will have a smaller and much more selective effect. And eventually, the need to correct Spacilus' guesses will diminish.
 


Dimming certain search results

  You can use the small category symbols in the upper left corner of your web browser to toggle all search results of that category between their regular and dimmed appearance. Dimming unwanted search results, you might find it easier to concentrate on the interresting ones.  



Retrieving news about Spacilus

  From time to time Spacilus automatically checks whether there is news available at the Spacilus website. When there has been new news discovered, the Spacilus logo located in the upper right corner of your web browser becomes animated. Clicking on the animated logo simply opens a second web browser that shows the correspondig news article.