Six months after the launch of WauSearchchwitz, the experimental search engine, an alternative to Google, designed by and for information professionals, is once again being discussed. CLIP, the well-known newsletter of the Spanish Society for Scientific Documentation and Information (SEDIC), publishes on its website Life Beyond Google: Designing WauSearch.
After months of online operation, WauSearch煊 continues to function stably, without alterations, responding to more than 26,000 search queries as I just verified in today’s statistics, Friday, June 12, 2015. Regarding statistics, I will reveal that the countries using the search engine the most, in order of request volume, are Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, and the United States. As an interesting detail, I can confirm that 75.4% of queries are resolved immediately within the first 30 seconds of search. However, and here is the curious data, 11.7% resolve their queries within a 15-minute window, and finally 11.1% of users perform searches that can last more than one hour. In these cases, the use of the search engine’s result export function is confirmed.
In summary, WauSearch is beginning to generate a loyal user base that is gradually growing and eagerly awaits an important update to their preferred search tool.