The new TWERQ On-Site Widget is a great way to share information. The best way to describe it however is to talk about something else then demonstrate how it can be used.

With so much growth in mobility we have already started developing mobility features. The new iPhone of course makes me curious about how TWERQ will function on this and future devices like it. We have already be thinking about how the multi-touch interface can be taken advantage of. I was happy to hear that AJAX and Javascript both are supported in what apparently is the same Safari browser as for Mac, Windows and now the iPhone. If this is in fact the case, theoretically TWERQ should work perfectly on your new iPhone when you get it.

There is no lack of information about the iPhone. I have not even scratched the surface but as you can see with the TWERQ On-Site Widget below I have included some of the “relevant” material I have found on the iPhone if you would like to learn more.

You can tell whether a result is a website, feed, story, image or video by hovering over the listing with your mouse. This will display a icon indicating the type of information it is. A tool tip will also display with the full result title.

This is just one way to use the TWERQ Hive & On-Site Widget. You can also use it to create and distribute a LIVE list of your favorite websites, feeds, stories, images and videos. Results can be pulled from one or more hives and sorted by relevancy or date.

Learn more about TWERQ On-Site or the TWERQ Hive

Wesley Long

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We are extremely happy to announce, today we have officially launched our most recent version of TWERQ, Beta RC4 Hive Edition. We have made many improvements to the over all functionality of the system. Over 70 new features and enhancements have been made. The most notable new feature is of course the TWERQ Hive. It allows users to collaborate while searching, marking useful results collaborating them to what is called a Hive List, so that other users conducting the same search can find these useful results quickly. Relevant sites, feeds, stories, images, and video results are added to each Hive list. Users can see these related searches, results added to the list in real-time. Another key feature we have added is Video Search powered by the blinkx.com API. For more information about the features of TWERQ visit http://www.twerq.com/help

TWERQ Partners with Picsearch to Power Image Search.
We are excited to now be working with Picsearch, a widely known and respected industry leader in image search and family filtering technology. Effective immediately all image searches will now display Picsearch image results. This partnership demonstrates TWERQ’s commitment to providing a relevant and family friendly image search.

Wesley Long, TWERQ Founder said “We want to offer users the best image search results. It is great to now be working with Picsearch. Their expertise and experience in image search technology is invaluable. They offer by far the best image search results and when combined with the unique functionality of TWERQ ultimately benefits our users.â€Â?

Robert Risberg, Picsearch’s CEO said “Picsearch provides multimedia search to many of the largest websites in the world. But we also work with newly founded innovative companies like Twerq. Twerq has some very interesting features in their user interface which are truly unique. Working with pioneering companies is inspiring.â€Â?

Approximately 11 percent of all searches on the Internet are image searches (Hitwise November 2006). Picsearch is the second largest image search provider in the world and has over 1.7 billion searchable images. Every month, several million new images are added to the service. Picsearch has, since its inception, strived for relevancy and family friendliness. High relevancy helps the user to find the image they are looking for. Family friendliness allows children to surf in safety as offensive material is filtered out by advanced filtering systems. For more information please visit www.picsearch.com.

$1000 Grand Prize to be found on TWERQ today!
There is $2000.00 US cash, ready to be found through out your searches. One thousand dollars is divided up into smaller prizes while one lucky searcher will find the grand prize of $1000.00. The name of our grand prize winner will be announced June 21st, 2007 on both our official blog and announcement section. Start searching now. Today could be your LuckDay@TWERQ!

Ready for your Feedback!
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you the users for taking the time to use our product. We value your feedback and want to here your comments and suggestions or answer any questions about this new release. If you would like to offer a comment, suggestion or have a question please contact us.

Wesley Long

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Today we reached a search milestone. More than 188,000 searches have now been conducted on TWERQ since our initial launch 9 months ago. Over 100,000 of those searches have been conducted in just the last 3 months since the launch of TWERQ TurboCharged Beta RC3. Over 900 new users have signed up for a total of almost 1200 members.

TWERQ Beta RC4 Hive Edition - Launch Update*
The newest version of TWERQ, Beta RC4 Hive Edition is extremely close to being ready for launch. So close in fact you can expect to see it within the next few days. Some of you may have noticed TWERQ was unavailable for the better part June 2nd while we conducted a transfer to load balanced dedicated servers hosted by industry leader RackSpace. This was done to ensure maximum performance and reliability of the site under high volumes of use in preparation for the launch. I am also excited to tell you that when Beta RC4 launches there will be $2000.00 in the LuckyDay@TWERQ prize pot to be given away to people using TWERQ. One extra lucky person will find the grand prize of $1000.00, so stay tuned!

Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
Read/Write Web recently added a new blog to it’s growing network, dedicated to it’s highly successful Alternative Search Engines list. This list fully demonstrates the endless innovation happening when it comes to search. The top 100 is picked from more then 1000 search engines and that number grows every day. TWERQ was first included on the Top 100 ASE in February of 2007 and was included again this June for the fifth consecutive month. Visit AltSearchEngines.com

Searchnomics Search Engine Awards 2007
WebGuild’s Searchnomics is hosting Search Engine Awards 2007 which takes place June 27 in Sunnyvale California. There are 78 engines listed at this point including major engines Google, Windows Live, Yahoo and Ask. TWERQ is currently placed 20th according to their online voting system with 61 votes scoring a rank of 4.5 out of 5. Vote for TWERQ

Wesley Long

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One of the biggest challenges we face is how to convey the power and convenience of TWERQ, as well as how it can help both novice or savvy users. It offers much more functionality then people are used to when it comes to searching the web and some of the advanced features may seem confusing on the surface.

I like to use the analogy driving down the highway. When it comes time to pass another car, it is nice to have a car that has the extra power to quickly overtake the vehicle and be on your way. If you think of how people search the information highway there are many similarities. Everyone searches at there own speed and there are always times you wish you could do more to find what you are looking for faster.

There are 3 key benefits at the core of TWERQ’s unique technology which I feel will help us to overcome this challenge.

The same but different.
People are use to the way they search. Our goal with TWERQ has been to make it a seamless transition to a new more effective way of searching. The easiest way to start searching with TWERQ is to simply start using it as you would any other search product. By default, each time you conduct a standard search, rather then replacing results that are displayed, results internally open a new tab on the webpage and not the browser. This allows to you instantly flip through previous searches and quickly identify which search term has the most relevant results. When you select a tab your search term is selected so you can easily type in another keyword or refine the current one and do another search.

More power when you need it.
TWERQ’s advanced features are mostly under the hood and can be used on demand very easily. It starts with what are called Q-Triggers which are a special set of commands. These commands allow you do all your refining in one search string, then conduct multiple searches from various sources of information simultaneously. Other key features allow you save, open, share and collaborate with others the information you find.

Where ever and when ever you need it.
Each and every feature of TWERQ has been developed to make searching easier, more convenient and portable. Your information and what you find is in your control and you can access it from anywhere in the world at any time.

We have also been working on simple and easy to understand tips, help documentation and presentations. Ultimately it will be user questions, comments and suggestions which will help us to improve this so keep the feedback coming. We truly appreciate it!

For more information about TWERQ’s features please visit http://www.twerq.com

Wesley Long

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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

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