Friday, December 16, 2005
Is PreFound.com, a social search site, launching at a good time? The following article from The Guardian illustrates fairly clearly how important social searching is becoming related to the future of the Internet. The timing for the introduction of PreFound.com, a social search site that we believe has the most accessible user interface and a patented, advanced application for gathering information to share, seems to be right on target.
The following quote from the article is telling:
"You can probably stitch together our plan from the moves we've made, the acquisitions we've made, the products we've put out to market," says Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo's senior director of technology development. That plan: to try and make social search the next stage in the evolution of search engines."
Joshua Schachter, Delicious' creator: 'We're excited to be working with the Yahoo search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin, Flickr!' And why Yahoo's interest? The article opines: 'It takes a lot of the hard work out of searching the web. The very clever thing about social software is that it puts the burden on to the user, not the provider.'"
Read the article here:
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1667276,00.html
Social search could very well be where search engines are going as the Internet evolves. PreFound.com wants to be the best place to utilize what other people have found and we want to do it in the most accessiblele and effective way possible. Please help us make that happen.
The following quote from the article is telling:
"You can probably stitch together our plan from the moves we've made, the acquisitions we've made, the products we've put out to market," says Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo's senior director of technology development. That plan: to try and make social search the next stage in the evolution of search engines."
Joshua Schachter, Delicious' creator: 'We're excited to be working with the Yahoo search team - they definitely get social systems and their potential to change the web. We're also excited to be joining our fraternal twin, Flickr!' And why Yahoo's interest? The article opines: 'It takes a lot of the hard work out of searching the web. The very clever thing about social software is that it puts the burden on to the user, not the provider.'"
Read the article here:
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1667276,00.html
Social search could very well be where search engines are going as the Internet evolves. PreFound.com wants to be the best place to utilize what other people have found and we want to do it in the most accessiblele and effective way possible. Please help us make that happen.
