First Impression on Qwiki [INVITES]

We are invited to put the new search engine to test. First impression? Great. It lived up to the demo that we covered earlier this week. Qwiki revolutionizes information search and I’m going to stick to that.

I started my alpha test by keying in my own country ‘Singapore’ and the engine provided a great overview. To be honest, some of my country’s statistics surprised me. I’m proud to be a Singaporean.

Qwiki’s way of presenting information allows users to absorb information quickly. It’s good for users who are asking for definitions. For example, a search on ‘Medea’ (Greek mythology) would allow students to quickly understand her background and story.

Qwiki also did a good job linking related searches to the previous search. If a user were to search for Medea, he or she would probably be interested to find out more about ‘Jason’ too.

There is one big disadvantage about Qwiki: Users can’t retrieve data swiftly and precisely. Say if I wish to search for ‘Singapore population’ or specific news, Google seems to be a better search engine. Perhaps that isn’t a fair comparison. After all, Qwiki is still under Alpha testing. We’ll see how Qwiki tackles the problem.

If you wish to be a Qwiki’s Alpha tester, simply register below. We’ll invite you shortly. Feel free to share with us how you feel too.