MORE INVITATION GOODNESS – NEW REAL-TIME SEARCH AND DISCOVERY COMPANY, WOWD.COM, MAKES INVITATION KEYS AVAILABLE TO ALTSEARCHENGINES READERS TODAY

Silicon Valley start-up, Wowd.com has just released its private beta. They are making a limited number of invitations available to AltSearchEngines readers. The company, founded in 2007, has been quietly building a slick, sophisticated and user-friendly real-time search (RTS) tool that promises to be different than a general-purpose search engine and more robust than other real-time publishing platforms.

What is Wowd, and how will it “wow” me?

Wowd is a real-time search engine for discovering popular content on the web right now. What’s novel about Wowd is that it uses the ‘attention frontier’ of its user community to build a real-time index of results from the entire web. Meaning, the surfing behavior of any given Wowd ‘node’ is fed into the cloud (anonymously) so that others may discover interesting topics that are both popular and fresh.

For AltSearchEngines Readers Only – to try Wowd, click here:

Then download the browser app.

Unlike others in the business of RTS, Wowd knows what sites, news items, or media is the “hottest”. It delivers results that might have otherwise remained buried in a sea of spam, because real people visit pages they find interesting, not bots. In this way, the Wowd index is continuously being updated.

Anyone visiting the Wowd.com site can use Wowd, view the “Hot List” and enter a query. But, to get the most from Wowd, we suggest downloading the free browser application that works on the Mac, PC and Linux operating systems (use invite key above).

Wowd’s founder, Boris Agapiev, has just written a new white paper “The Distributed Cloud, a Foundation for Planetary-scale Computing.” This paper nicely illustrates how Wowd plays in the real-time search market. Agapiev observes “The enormous size of the Web, together with ever-more demanding requirements such as freshness (results in seconds, not days or weeks) means that massive resources are required to handle enormous datasets in a timely fashion.” The paper explains how the Wowd architecture addresses this issue without requiring huge server farms and data centers. (So Wowd is “green” too!)

To learn more, and read the white paper, go to: http://blog.wowd.com

-LaurieAnne “LA” Lassek

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 at 5:45 pm and is filed under Guest Authors, Newcomers, Realtime. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.