Wowd, a Palo Alto, CA-based startup, announced the public release of its real-time peer-to-peer search engine at the Web 2.0 Summit Conference in San Francisco today. There have been a number of real-time search startups emerging to deliver more timely results by leveraging social media platforms like Twitter. Wowd takes a slightly different approach by ranking sites based on how often the Wowd community has visited the site – effectively ranking with your clicks. See the brief demo below:
Wowd Real-time Search from Wowd on Vimeo.
While the Wowd search engine uses other traditional ranking algorithms, its main differentiation is its real-time clickstream of data from its community of peer-t
o-peer clients. Unlike other real-time search engines who rely on streams from social platforms, Wowd requires its members to download Wowd and then the software effectively tracks the users behavior and creates real-time popularity rankings of results.
Basically, Wowd ranks results based on what Internet users do, not what they say – ‘actions speak louder than words’. You can even sort your personalized search results by ‘freshness’ or by ‘popularity’ depending on your preferences. To take a look at the Wowd beta – click here. Tell us what you think.
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