AHNAR is a system to assist people while browsing on the www. This is done by having the least possible interaction between AHNAR and the user. AHNAR will point out the links which are worth following. These links will be preceded with a yellow, green or red arrow. Together with this AHNAR provides a list of See Also links obtained from a search engine.
AHNAR works by trying to guess the user's topic by inspecting the words in the page and computing out the most popular terms. These evolve as the user browses from page to page and are used to pick out the most important links.
While browsing with AHNAR each page will be added with an AHNAR header at the top which would contains all the commands/features present in AHNAR.
These are described below:
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| See Also | Displays a Google search according to the search topic. This feature is available starting off from the 3rd page the user visits in a particular session. |
| Bookmark | Bookmarks the Current Page. The bookmark will promote the page contents to as important. Please not that the bookmark will not use AHNAR as a gateway.(This feature only works under Microsoft Internet Explorer.) |
| Correct | Corrects the Guessed Keywords. The User is requested to select the keywords that are wrong according to the topic. |
| Negative | Treat page as a bad link...and go back to previous visited page. Page contents will be treated as negative to the topic. |
| Reset | Stop Browsing, resetting the Session to start Browsing a new topic |
Suggested links are preceded by the arrow. The Green Arrow indicates that the link points to some point in the same page while the Red Arrow indicates that the link points to something more in-depth about that story/topic. The Yellow Arrow is a general link and does not specify anything but simply indicates that the link might be worthwhile following. AHNAR starts suggesting from the 3rd page of a particular session. This is due to the fact that AHNAR needs to figure out the topic the user is interested in.