Fark.com - It's not news, it's Fark

Fark.com is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site, were users are able to submit different kinds of news. Visitors are able to submit news only by opening an online account. Fark.com is supposed to look like news, but it's not news. It's Fark. News are really well organized, there is a chronological archive, that makes users searching easy and quick.

“The first thing you should know is that Fark.com isn't a Weblog. Fark.com, the Web site, is a news aggregator and an edited social networking news site. Every day Fark receives 2,000 or so news submissions from its readership. Fark isn't an acronym. It doesn't mean anything. The idea was to have the word Fark come to symbolize news that is really Not News. Hence the slogan "It's not news, it's Fark." Fark was originally a word Drew became known for using online back in the early 1990s. He can't remember why, but his guess is that it was either to replace another F-word or that he was just drunk and mistyped something. He tells everyone it was the former since it's a better story that way.”

Fark.com is an appealing site were users can both search in a huge range of information or submit a link. This website is really well organized, divided into categories, several of which are the following: sports, showbiz, Greek, politics, video and music among others. This division facilitates users searching. The site manages a simple vocabulary, which makes the site easy to handle. Submissions at Fark.com are really easy; users will only need to have an online account opened. In addition, Fark.com provides visitors with an excellent service!

Will they motivate users to submit news on this website? Will they be able to compete with so many other websites providing customers the same service?