Steve Mansfield Quotes on Communities (4 Quotes)

Much like eBay and other sites, this move provides a platform for everyday users to participate in utilizing the Internet in a commercial way while providing a service to the community at-large. Under this new structure, Expert and Elite rank users will enjoy a high level of control over the sponsored links being presented on their user pages, including their content, appearance, quantity, promotion, even their costs to advertisers.

We saw an opportunity in the community search and index space to offer something that's easy for anyone to use. Today there are a lot of good indexed sites but they are fairly vertical in areas like technical news, and not that accessible to the everyday user.

It's up to you to decide if you want to commit to being part of the community. We want to be useful whether you choose to be a part of the community or not.

Paying people to search and share what they've found is a concept that's gaining in popularity. Community and social search is the wave of the future, but these types of sites need to quickly build high-quality, human-indexed content, and their members are looking for the motivation to participate in this effort. Further, advertisers are anxious to take advantage of targeting large groups of users that are all interested in common products and services, which PreFound.com provides.