A REWARD DRIVEN ONLINE SYSTEM UTILIZING USER-GENERATED TAGS AS A BRIDGE TO SUGGESTED LINKS

摘要

A web site for user suggestions of products, services or other information. The Suggestor also submits tags with those suggestions. To the extent subsequent users use the same tags to access or purchase the user suggestion, the suggesting user will be rewarded. The present invention also provides mechanisms for disbursing rewards for 'finding-and-buying-thru-tags', ranking suggestions, enabling various privacy preserving communications and deal validation mechanisms among shoppers, Suggestors and their social networks.