• Cornered!, Monday, October 15, 2007 12:15 PM

Founded in Australia, CrowdFound is a social-bookmarking site that aims to "harness the power of the crowd to bring you the best content on the Web."

The service predefines specific categories and subcategories of info (like sports, music, and business) and then users submit and vote on which categories to place content in.

According to the founders, it's this topic-centric focus -- rather than a focus on the users and their profiles -- that separates CrowdFound from communities like StumbleUpon or Digg, and also, ultimately helps the user discovery engine make up for the "shortcomings" of traditional search and directory engines.

But iTWire blogger Stuart Corner questions whether this is really "search," and how effective this new social bookmarking cum search site will be for finding info on topics that aren't particularly current or popular.

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