WhereIsNow gives you what other search engine don’t, the sureness of:

   * getting the document you want exactly in the moment you want it.

   * informing your customers of the occurred updates exactly in the moment they want to know them.

The problem: Documents become out of date too rapidly, especially in a world dominated by technologies in which documents are updated, renamed and moved from one location to another very frequently.

What are autoupdating documents? 

From the user’s point of view: How many times, while reading a document, you have thought “is this one the latest version? If not, where can I find it?”

Whatever the document contains, it must be up-to-date to become useful.

Up to now, you probably satisfy this need asking someone confirmation or using a search engine or even by crossing your fingers, with the hope you have found the right one.

How much time do you spend and waste seeking? And after the pursuit… are you sure that it really concerns with the latest version? 

Consider if the document itself could redirect you to its latest version, permitting you to be always updated avoiding errors and making the search useless!!!

From the publisher’s point of view: The purpose of who publish a document is to inform the user that a new version of a document has become available.

E-mails, articles, calls are all publishers’ means of action used in order to give a piece of advice or news.

But, are all the customers so diligent to verify if new versions of a document, they already have, had become available? 

Consider if the document itself could allow your customers to be always updated on your initiatives in the moment they need to know it!!!

The Solution: WhereIsNow provides the addresses where you can find the latest version of a document.

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So, how does it work? Every document registered inside WhereIsNow received an associated key given by Publisher and Document identifiers.

A Publisher identifier is associated to every registered WhereIsNow user, while the Document identifier is associated to every document registered inside WhereIsNow™ by a specific Publisher.

During the registration of a document, a Publisher must insert some information fields and at least one valid address.

Everytime a new version of the Document becomes available or the Document has to change its address location ’cause it has to be renamed or moved, the Publisher simply registers the new Version address.

Using the key Publisher-Document you can verify if an updated version of the Document registered by the Publisher exists inside WhereIsNow and go to the specified address location to get it.

There are potentially infinite ways to query WhereIsNow™ due to the fact it has been developed as a Web Service in order to facilitate a machine-to-machine integration.

The main way to query the service is to get through WhereIsNow™ website and use the Key-Search functionality. Further on everyone can develop its application without any limits neither to sectors nor to functionalities they want to satisfy.

What kind of documents? For WhereIsNow™, a document is any object capable to communicate (i.e. images, text, video, audio …) regardless of its format or of the way to distribute it.

What it is not: We cannot stress it enough: WhereIsNow™ is not a document archive.

We do not store a copy of the registered documents. We don’t even know, nor care, the contents of the documents indexed by WhereIsNow™ web service. We just give every information publisher the opportunity to tell the world where the latest version of his documents can be found, providing a unique Publisher+Document key for each and every document indexed into the WhereIsNow™ database and one or more addresses where the latest version of that document can be found.

Source: WhereIsNow.com

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