tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-196022652025-11-13T21:52:49.036-05:00PreFound.com is a new way to search the web. Get involved and share your research with others.prefoundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10611156814234585418noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19602265.post-1143491995050036862006-03-27T15:38:00.000-05:002006-03-27T15:39:55.070-05:00

Please visit us at our new home at:http://www.prefoundblog.comUpdate your bookmarks and thanks for your interest in PreFound.com!

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The big aspects of the evolution of PreFound.com lately have been coming in the form of adding RSS feeds to all kinds of information that is being shared with all us lazy guys. I mean, we're often too lazy to even visit PreFound.com, so we need PreFound.com to come to us. That's what RSS can do.You've probably noticed that you can now:- Get an RSS feed from your favorite Featured Finder. So now,

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The PreFound.com Team ventured forth from our Global Headquarters this week to attend the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York. Thanks to all the folks there for their hospitality and hard work. Special thanks goes out to our PR partners, PAN Communications, who were great to work with.Also, we wanted to thank all those who dropped by our little roundtable discussions. We hope we were

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PreFound.com was mentioned today in the Wall Street Journal in an article about search engine rewards programs. That's the second time the WSJ has written about PreFound.com in our 36 days since launch, so we just might be doing something right.A thought that comes to mind as we read the article was just how different the motivations are for reward programs comparing sites like Yahoo and

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As of yesterday, PreFound.com allows users to share links with the PreFound.com community without the use of the PFfinder toolkit, which means "no download required". With this feature live on the site, we've implemented the two most requested enhancements to the PreFound.com site, which were RSS feeds from user pages, particularly Featured Finders, and the ability to share links with the

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PreFound.com was mentioned in John Battelle’s Blog today. He mentioned we were in the Kentucky and called it “the land of Fark and Bourbon”. Well, we sure agree that Lexington’s own Fark.com can offer hours of entertainment and if you’re looking for great Kentucky Bourbon, try the new and improved Four Roses Single Barrel. It’s distilled just a few miles away in Lawrenceburg, KY and has a great

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PreFound.com had a nice write-up in the Louisville Courier-Journal today by their business writer, Bill Wolfe. Mr. Wolfe came down to the PreFound.com Global Headquarters last week to do some interviews, take some pictures and spend some time talking about social and community search with Steve and Pat. It was really nice to have a local newspaper cover what we're doing and what we want to do in

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Paying people to search and share what they've found. It's a concept that's been around for a while and has been implemented in a number of ways. And, moving into the future we're seeing a number of sites that are implementing this very concept. We at PreFound.com are now excited about our entry into that space. Starting this month, PreFound.com will institute a program that will allow our

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Here at PreFound.com, we're always evolving and changing in our attempts to meet the needs of the community search world. Some of the things we're working on include adding RSS feeds to the User Finds pages so you can be notified when your favorite PreFound.com users share new links. We'll be adding RSS feeds to other aspects of the site as we grow, and your comments on how to grow the site and

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Since launch, we've been getting some really interesting Find Groups. Many have been educational in nature, like this one on William Jennings Bryan (thanks JK, your Groups have been great) or kind of interesting on a more arcane level like this one on graphic novels (the Flaming Carrot comic? Who would have guessed?). Now some of you, and you know who you are, are blatantly pushing your

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One thing people seem to notice when they first visit PreFound.com is some of the major differences between how it works and how other search engines and/or tagging sites work. It’s good that we’re all different in important ways. That way, you have a choice of working with the site that best suits your way of working.At its base, PreFound.com is about sharing “groups” of like links. These

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No download required.We've been busy here in the bowels of the PreFound.com Global HQ working on new enhancements to the site. One of the big things that you guys have been asking about for a while has been alternate methods of posting Find Groups to PreFound.com in addition to, or instead of, just using the PFfinder. Another is giving you a way to import the bookmarks you have saved on

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Like virtually everyone else that works in the world of search, we at the PreFound.com Global HQ monitor all of the other blogs out there that are relevant to the search industry. Lately, let's say over the last six months or so, the vast majority of posts on these sites deal with whatever is happening over at Google. If Yahoo is lucky, maybe a few for them, and on the super rare occasion, Ask

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Unless you've been in solitary confinement over the last few days, you've probably read all about the Google vs US Dept. of Justice issue where as part of its effort to uphold an online pornography law, the Justice Department had asked a federal judge to compel Google to turn over records on millions of its users' search queries. Google is resisting the request, but Yahoo, MSN and America Online

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From the pages of the Wall Street Journal today, PreFound.com is discussed as one of the new generation of tagging sites that are "The Next Big Thing In Searching", by Jessica E. Vascellaro, Staff Reporter for the WSJ. If for any reason you can't click to it, comment below and we'll get you a copy.That's big news, not only for us but for our segment of the search world. We at PreFound.com have

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When we launched PreFound.com last Tuesday, we had already pre-loaded the site with 1.2 million Find Groups from the Open Directory Project. We did this so PreFound.com would be useful on the day it launched. BUT, we know that PreFound.com is not going to be what we all want it to be until the Find Groups that users like you upload to the site far outnumber the Find Groups that we've pre-loaded.

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Last month we discussed how we were going to update the site over the next few months, and now that we've launched, we thought it could bear repeating. So here goes:The comedian Steven Wright once said, "I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done, so now I just have to fill in the rest." Sometimes we here at PreFound.com use that philosophy in building the site. We know we have to build

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A little "social", but a lot "search". That's a decent way of describing PreFound.com.PreFound.com will never really be as "social" a network as many of the other social search sites out there. That's just not our thing. But, PreFound.com does have a great way of gathering information from the web and keeping it for yourself or sharing it with others, which is at its base similar to all the

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In an article posted the other day on CNN.com, John Battelle, who has become something of a celebrity pundit on Search technology primarily through his highly successful book, The Search, how Google and it's rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture, was asked about what he saw as the future of search. According to him, social searching will be a focus. Check out this

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To all of you that are new to PreFound.com, welcome. Today is our official launch day, even though we’ve been in the testing process for a matter of months at this point. If you are new, you might benefit from reading the press release that came out today about PreFound.com here and the article that will be published in DesignTechnica this week that talks about us.Never Search Alone. That’s our

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Plus or minus a few hours either way. We at PreFound.com don't like to get caught up in convention. Anyway, today's the last day before preview.prefound.com becomes www.prefound.com. We can't tell you guys how much we've appreciated your work over the last few months in testing the site and the PFfinder toolkit. We couldn't have done it without you, and even after launch, we hope you stay with us

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Only four more days to go before PreFound.com official launch. We're still working hard to ensure there are no problems. We're putting the final touches on the PFfinder as I write this. The only major thing left was to integrate the Help file into the menu, and that will happen by the end of the day. Any playing around with the final version over the weekend will be appreciated, needless to say,

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Only six days to go. PreFound.com launch is right around the corner. If you check out www.prefound.com you'll get our handy-dandy "coming soon" page now. Take a look if you get a chance.We keep talking about multimedia search and trying to mix your regular links with links to multimedia sites in your Find Groups, but some of you are wondering where to find that type of web content. Well, ask and

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Launch is one week away. We're really looking forward to getting the site out there and letting the users dictate the direction of the site and seeing them (hopefully) build our search database into a really helpful search solution. It'll be fun to get out of this development mode and into more of a growth mode, with your help.Some interesting blogs out there dealing with community search. In

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Monday's tip of the day, multimedia and PreFound.com. One of the most powerful features of PreFound.com is it's ability to tag and store links to multimedia right in the same space as graphic and text links. For example, in PFfinder, you can build a folder and start tagging links to text, pictures, audio, video, podcasts, etc. all in that very same folder. Then you can share this information with

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