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Our Blogs Cornered! CrowdFound: fascinating web site, but is it search
Our Blogs Cornered! CrowdFound: fascinating web site, but is it search | CrowdFound: fascinating web site, but is it search |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 09 October 2007 | |
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For example there are categories for comedy and humour, for sport, business and money, music, news and so on. Cofounder Gareth Saunders describes CrowdFound as "a people-powered content discovery engine combined with social networking and social book-marking applications." He adds: "We started CrowdFound because we felt there was a better way to find highly relevant quality content on topics of interest rather than by trawling through page after page of search engine results. We found the search engines to be great for presenting content that represented the best search engine optimised (SEO) material for that particular topic. However, to really find a significant quantity of in-depth content on any particular topic required going through page after page of results and sifting through forums, blogs and other sites, and only finding relevant quality content every so often." His fellow cofounder, Joe Olejnik, also gives the primary reason for developing it as being shortcomings of traditional search and directory sites. "We identified the lack of ability to find high quality content on specific subjects all in one place as one of the biggest problems on the internet. Sure there are search engines and directory listings, but it's not all in one spot and quite often search results provide too many non-relevant and / or outdated results which are poorly organised due to all the clutter that is out there." |
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