Outfoxed
Published by Jonathan November 3rd, 2005 in TechnologyKeyword searching on the web via Google or Yahoo! or whatever is all fine and dandy, but it sure can be overwhelming when the results number in the millions! Wouldn’t it be nice if someone you trust could point out the good sites and the bad sites on that list? Well, someone has created a plugin for Firefox that does exactly that.
With Outfoxed you select the users (called ‘informers’) that you trust, then when you do a web search it will mark the results Good, Bad, or Dangerous as rated by your trusted informers. You too can rate websites or write short reviews. As a social network you can determine how many degrees of people to trust… in other words, you could select to trust the informers that your informers trust, or trust the trusted of the trusted of those you trust, and so on. Confused? Sorry, its really all quite simple and I am not very eloquent. Just have a quick look at the site [http://getoutfoxed.com/]. Trust me. Then download it and let me know so that I can ‘trust’ you!
Of course, this doesn’t work with M$ Internet Explorer, only with Mozilla Firefox (the best, safest, quickest browser).
technorati tag: Outfoxed, social networking, Firefox
There are people still using browsers other than firefox?!
Hard to believe, I know. But I read somewhere recently that 10% of web users now use Firefox. As great as that is, I have to wonder why EVERYBODY doesn’t use FF! Readers of my blog are made up of 59% IE, 33% FF. Cool.