WOWD, the real-time search engine
With an aim to be identified as the Skype for search, the beta version of WOWD, the Internet’s newest search engine, was launched last week at the 2009 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
WOWD aims to distinguish itself from the popular mainstream search engines like Google and Yahoo! by identifying the most popular sites in real-time and hence wooing the internet search audience.
WOWD is a deliberate play on the word Crowd as it aims to differ from the rest by focusing on new trends, news, and popular topics and pages on the Internet.
In a method little similar to Digg, the internet users download WOWD browser application, and then every page visited by them is nominated for inclusion on the search engine’s results page.
The WOWD browser application is available for the Mac, Windows, and Linux.
The home page of WOWD offers three different tabs, Hot List, Search, and My Pages. The Hot List is available to everyone and results by popularity. Results are constantly updated giving you an update on the sites being visited by other users.







