Wowd Announces Internet’s First Personalized, Real-Time Tag Cloud Offering an Immediate View of the Web’s Most Popular Topics Related to a User’s Search

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Wowd, a leading-edge real-time search engine for discovering fresh, popular content from the entire Web, today unveiled the Internet’s first personalized tag cloud based on hot topics customized to an individual’s search query. Wowd has also created new key features for its unique browser application: SearchStream™, a live delivery of streaming real-time search results from the entire web.

“These features highlight the best aspect of Wowd’s real-time search: fortuitous discovery”

“These features highlight the best aspect of Wowd’s real-time search: fortuitous discovery,” said Mark Drummond, CEO, Wowd Inc. “Wowd doesn’t solely rely on tweets for real-time information. Our results are based on what the majority of people are interested in across the entire Web, at any given moment. This is the inherent power of Wowd—Web-wide, real-time search and discovery. We believe this approach will have a profound impact on the value of the information gleaned from the Web.”

The Industry’s First Personalized, Real-Time Tag Cloud

Centered upon on a user’s search query, Wowd’s “Hot Topics” tag cloud offers a snapshot of the most popular topics from the entire Web, including blogs, news, publically available websites, as well as the most discussed topics on Twitter, as they emerge.

Wowd has the unique ability to produce custom topic clouds simultaneously for each user’s individual search query because of its distributed cloud-based architecture. Wowd’s use of distributed cloud computing rather than centralized servers makes it easy to offer this function, while protecting privacy.

The personalized tag cloud is available to users who download Wowd’s browser application. Alternatively, Wowd.com hosts a basic tag cloud derived from the most popular pages that people are viewing in real-time across the Web and sharing on Twitter.

SearchStream™: Streaming Real-Time Search Results

Real-time search is all about knowing what’s going on “right now.” Wowd’s new SearchStream™ feature continuously looks for new information related to a search query. Results roll in automatically, incrementally, from across the entire Web (not just from a selection of hand-picked sites or social media feeds).

This automatic streaming of Web-wide search results ensures that the user gets the latest on favorite topics as events unfold real-time – be it celebrity gossip, politics, current events or sports. SearchStream™ is another function available within the Wowd downloadable browser application.

Anyone visiting Wowd.com can use Wowd, view the general “Hot Topic” cloud and enter a search query. The full Wowd experience with all the new features can be had by downloading the free browser application that works on the Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems by going to www.wowd.com.

ABOUT WOWD

Wowd is a real-time search engine for discovering what’s popular on the Web right now. Unlike other engines in the space, Wowd focuses on discovery and exploration of the entire Web, i.e. surfacing trends, breaking news, social media topics, and popular pages. Wowd then taps into the “attention frontier” of its user community to build real-time search results. Wowd makes it easy to discover the latest trends, topics, and hottest Web pages.

Wowd’s unique approach is to determine what’s popular based on the pages real people visit rather than relying on Web crawlers and data centers. Those who download the Wowd browser application anonymously nominate public Web pages for inclusion in Wowd simply by visiting them. In this way, Wowd is similar to a vote-free Digg.

The company is funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and KPG Ventures. Wowd’s corporate headquarters are in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Portland, Oregon and Belgrade, Serbia. For more information, visit the Wowd blog at http://blog.wowd.com and follow Wowd on Twitter at @wowd.