Systems and methods for organizing, presenting, and retrieving information about items of interest in a social network of interests

Abstract

In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a system for organizing, presenting and retrieving information about items of interest in a social network of interests including a user database for storing personal attributes of a plurality of users and an interest list for each of the plurality of users, the interest list comprising a plurality of interests; a plurality of personal profiles for presenting the personal attributes in the user database and the interest lists for each of the plurality of users; and a search engine, in communication with the user database and plurality of personal profiles, for performing an interest query of the user database, the interest query returning information relevant to the interest, the information relevant to the interest comprising at least one of an additional user, a posting by an additional user relating to the interest, or an additional interest related to the interest.

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