There are many people, asking many questions and I am glad to finally being able to answer them for you through our new official blog. It is hard to even put into words how excited I am over the response to TWERQ since our launch 8 months ago. I would like to thank all of you who provide us with feedback and help us track down bugs.

For my first official post into the blogosphere I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to address some of questions regarding myself personally as well as how I came up with the idea.

I have been a professional designer for over 15 years. I spent the first half of my career working in the print and sign industry. In 2000 I began to freelance my design services on the web. It was also at this point made the transition into website design and development.

In March of 2006 I decided to start work on a better way to search the web during my spare time. My motivation came from the accumulated frustration of using the same search engine interfaces for more then a decade. Like every other project I work on I fired up CorelDraw and began designing what I thought would be the ultimate search interface. As with all projects I started with the name and logo. While playing with names, my fiancé Daisy suggested we try something like QWERTY. I really liked the fact that it was all on one line on the keyboard and was easy type. I began looking for alternatives. I came up with the acronym “The Web’s Effective Result Query�? / TWERQ. It is pronounced like “TWORK�?. I immediately identified as a logo the “Q” meaning Query could be a magnifying glass representing “search” or “query”.

With the logo done, I started working on the actual interface. It was at this point I had the idea for search tabs to be created based on whether a check box was checked or not. I wasn’t entirely sure that this could be integrated into a web application so I contracted a programmer to attempt a bare bone prototype. Eureka it works! Of course this was without search results and any of the features which today make TWERQ so powerful like q-triggers and quicktags.

A lot has changed a year later. This once small spare time project has grown from a little idea to a robust interface, that is quickly becoming popular. I could not have done this alone. I have been lucky to have surrounded myself with a great development and management team who believe in TWERQ and are committed to it’s long term growth.

I am going to do my best to post to this blog at least once a week to answer questions or talk about TWERQ news or developments as well as various industry topics. I would like to thank all of you in advance for any comments or suggestions, keep the feedback coming.

Wesley Long

[tags]TWERQ, Search engine, search, twerq blog, blog[/tags]

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