When we began this blog, I used to boast the we could find a new alternative search engine every day. I called it, “The Search Engine of the Day.” And then I would lie awake at night worried about someday running out of new discoveries, unable to find one more.

Well, during this Post-A-Thon, I would be willing to bet half the money in Richard’s checking account that Peggy, Rafi and I could find a new search engine every hour for 24 hours, and maybe some day we will. For now, I really like this one. At the heart of Newspond lies a fully automated news engine. This system continually watches over and reads hundreds of different websites, including everything from major news portals, to the tiniest blog, or forum.

As a news story surfaces across one or more of these sites, Newspond notes every detail about it – from how fast a story spreads throughout the internet, to the amount of discussion surrounding the story, to even things like the rate at which people click on or bookmark the article and the size of each of the sites reporting it. Every detail is carefully noted, sized, and gauged, reading much faster than any human editor. That way, you don’t need to visit multiple news sites to figure out what’s going on.

Newspond pieces together all of the intricate information nailing down exactly how much buzz a particular story has, and produces a number – the story’s “Buoyancy Rating”. This constantly changing number represents all the interlocking factors that make up the exact popularity of an article at any given point in time. Sorting stories by these popularity ratings reveals a stunningly-instant, up-to-the-second surface view of the entire internet as stories spread throughout it.

This is a search engine on auto-pilot, it never stops and it never sleeps.

It just keeps searching, and searching, and searching, and searching…