The Free IQ Experiment

There's a new player on the internet video/social networking scene - Free IQ. If successful, it threatens to revolutionize the way people search for, as well as produce, online content. The emphasis of Free IQ is on material that provides knowledge or information, all put into the context of a search engine that's also a social network!

There is already a large and growing database of videos on many topics. Unlike the more random content of YouTube, FreeIQ was designed to be a place to share knowledge. This, of course, can take a multitude of forms. Right now a lot of the content pertains to marketing, especially internet marketing, which reflects the people who started and first joined FreeIQ. However, the field is wide open for people to share their expertise about almost anything.

When members post content to Free IQ, it is ranked by other members. This way, the content that people find most valuable rises to the top of the search engine. Whereas normal search engines are usually controlled by shrewd marketing tactics, the rankings at Free IQ are meant to reflect the value to users.

Visually, the home page at Free IQ appears to be a typical search engine. The logistics of the system, however, are designed to bring up more focused and valuable content than a typical search. Every member also has a bio page and a place to start a mailing list, making Free IQ a social network as well as an informational site.

There is also a two-tier affiliate program which is free to join. This means affiliates earn commissions on anything purchased by those who sign up under them, and also on the second level; that is, they earn commissions on sales made by affiliates of their affiliates.

Despite the commercial nature of much of the site, what stands out about FreeIQ is, as the name implies, the amount of free content. There is plenty of free content on the net, of course, but most of it is trivial. There's nothing wrong with trivia, but it's also good to have a place to be able to access some useful knowledge.

As with any new enterprise, we can only guess what the future will bring for Free IQ. The very nature of the format is experimental; it's fate will be decided by the fickle internet masses. I am hoping it will succeed and become larger and more diverse, if only because it represents a real potential for lots of free information on the net.

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Larry is the founder of Abundance Meme Project, which also has a link to the FreeIQ home page
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