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Do Online Communities Need a Search Engine? PreFound Shares Insights from Kentucky Derby Roundtable; Industry experts discuss the effect of social networks on Internet search in light of rising social search popularity.

Publication: Business Wire
Publication Date: 16-MAY-06 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Do Online Communities Need a Search Engine? PreFound Shares Insights from Kentucky Derby Roundtable; Industry experts discuss the effect of social networks on Internet search in light of rising social search popularity.(Discussion)

Article Excerpt
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A week prior to Google's announcement of, among other applications, its own social search platform, participants in community-based search engine PreFound.com's roundtable discussion, from the Kentucky Derby, called "Extending Online Social Communities into Pure Search" debated the ways in which the power of millions of members of online social communities could be harnessed and extended into pure search. The roundtable was convened to explore how social search communities outshine traditional search engines when it comes to providing results that are relevant for a particular demographic.

PreFound.com (www.prefound.com) is a community-oriented search engine that lets people find, tag, and share information including multimedia such as video,...

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