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I'm a little confused as to it's function. Does it share your FireFox bookmarks or history with other people to create a pool of info? If so, is it on by default? Can it be turned off if it is?

If that's part of the deal, and it's on by default, it would seem like a potential securty/privacy threat.

From reading the short (and I mean short) description and comments, it's like a search engine tool that combines content with regular user rating (meaning things that are "popular" among people will show up more). This seems to be a very good idea since garbage sites that might get returned from a search engine don't show up.

However, I have to question where the content comes from. Does it come from users submitting, or are a users bookmarks and such mined and shared?

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I think its set up for people who want to share or be collaborative with what they find..but im not sure of the mechanics as I havent tried it out yet

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Ok. It's actually an excellent idea.

It's a full community based thing. It's almost like a centralized network of "shared Web sites". People create an account and then post what sites, etc, they think are "good" (or what they have interest in). All these profiles with this user submitted data is used and returned as results like a search engine.

Obviously being user driven and not Bot or agenda driven means crap sites and spam is severely limited.

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