PreFound Combines Search Results With Link Suggestions
Red Herring reports on an interesting new search engine called PreFound. PreFound combines search engine results with suggested links provided by PreFound users.
Then there's PreFound. The Lexington, Kentucky-based firm is looking to get the public's attention by coming up with a new way to search. The company's product is somewhat akin to search's answer to Wikipedia, the online collaborative encyclopedia. When someone types in a search term, the results pulled up by PreFound's engine include materials found on the web and posted by previous users.PreFound offers a revenue sharing program to motivate users to share links. PreFound also has a blog that keeps you up-to-date on new developments with the search engine.
A user searching for "sugar" on the PreFound site would pull up groups of links on the topic collected by people who had searched for the same term on the web as opposed to links simply generated through an algorithm.
PreFound appears to be an addition to the rapidly growing list of social web and search sites, which encourage users to rank and rate content based on relevance. The idea is rooted in the concept of a more democratic web that is shaped by the people that use it.
Posted on April 6, 2006
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