Earlier this year, PreFound.com launched with an interesting idea: build a community-based Web-searching site based on the search evaluations of people who searched before you. People are much better at evaluating the usefulness of Web search results than computers: since many people tend to search for similar things, presenting the results for a particular topic that other users liked best is probably a good way to separate the wheat from the chaff. And the link farms.
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PreFound.com Lets Others Search For You
PreFound.com is a new collaborative, community-oriented search site which proceeds from two interesting premises:
- people are better at evaluating search results than search engines, and,
- surely someone has searched for information on a particular topic before you
PreFound.com intends to leverage the collective knowledge of Internet users to improve the reliability and results from search engines. Users type a keyword or phrase into PreFound.com’s familiar search box and receive a group of search results which have been gathered by previous PreFound.com users and arranged by popularity within the PreFound.com community. Given a large enough community – and enough gathered link lists – PreFound.com’s search results should eliminate useless or irrelevant links in favor of material which is genuinely useful and informative.
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