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 groups of links are saved, then tagged all at once before sharing. Then, when users search PreFound.com, they are presented with links to those organized groups of links that another user has been good enough to share. It’s kind of like bizarro world compared to similar sites (all nerds like me read Superman comics). Most sites save one link at a time, that are connected in some way by a “group” of tags, which is in a strange way the opposite of how PreFound.com does it. Of course, we think our way is great and easy to understand, but it’s personal preference, needless to say.

Another major difference is how we approach the whole “tagging” thing. Of course, users can just “post” groups of links by entering them into boxes (no download or anything, coming soon), but the best way is to use PFfinder if you can. PFfinder has tools to assist users in navigating the web (browser helpers) and advanced ways of saving links (even graphical links and showing the graphic with the link), organizing links and sharing links. It’s much more than just a way to post a single link to your space, it’s a tool that you can use for a variety of useful things. The trade-off for all that functionality is that it’s a download, it saves the links you’ve saved to a file on your computer, not to some space on the web and to share it you have to go to the PreFound.com Upload Center to share that file. So, a lot of functionality given to the users to do some next-generation stuff with links they discover, but a little more work to share them compared to other similar sites. We think it’s worth it, and hopefully many of you do, too.

Try ‘em all out. See which works best for you.

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