The ab|inventio Gazette

Read our customer’s glowing review of QLess.

In the meantime, an all-new release of Whozat is out: www.whozat.com.  Every site statistic improved with it. Congratulations, Igor, Arthur, Pat & Peter!

QLess is launching in NYC, at the popular Turning Point restaurant chain. Congratulations, Charles!

QLess released a web widget that allows patrons to get in line via the WWW, a bunch of new reports tracking personnel, and a number of other improvements.

QLess monthly usage broke a new record. Holler if you want to get involved or know a place that has lines. No place should. It’s 2009! Cheers, Alex 

A new Whozat look and navigation browser is out! Check it out at www.whozat.com and tell us whether you like it better. Make sure to click on the various tabs. Credits are due to Pat Stern, Arthur Mashinyan, Gevorg, Peter Preksto and of course Igor. Still ironing out a couple of final bugs. Just searched for Yahoo SEM. Google’s top result is an Ambassador certification for 3 employees of Morpheus Media. The good answer is not even in the top 10. In Whozat, it’s one refinement away: http://www.whozat.com/search/?task_id=418873&eventname=expression&object=search%20engine%20marketing&value=yesWhozat away!–Alex 

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We had some issues with our DNS servers today. They should be fixed as soon as our DNS changes propagate across the Internet. If you ever get no response from whozat.com, try going directly to one of our servers, such as http://216.138.118.50 or http://216.138.118.52 .

Our apologies!

–Alex

1. Thus said Federico Picone of Whozat in his DotPod review. Perhaps even more revealing than Federico Picone’s great review of Whozat are his readers’ comments on it:

   “Very interesting tool, really. Thanks for sharing.”

   “This is very good; I have just found 4 people that were well hidden. Found!”

   Thanks, Federico!

   And here is another great review by Extremisimo.

   –Alex

   Whozat: El buscador de personas de la Web 2.0

   Jhony Cogollo 

   Muy interesante la herramienta la verdad. Gracias por compratir la información.

2. RAMMSES wrote:

   Esto está bueno, acabo de encontrar a 4 personas que bien escondidilas estaban. Blanqueadas, ya mismo.

Elgeek.com writes: “we find some interesting results [in Google], but they don’t rise to the level of Whozat’s, which make your hair stand on end”.

Elgeek.com escribe: “muchos (incluyéndome)buscamos en Google información sobre personas que recién conocemos, un posible candidato a empleado, el chico que conocimos en una fiesta o porque somos unos chusmas.

Algunos datos interesantes obtenemos, pero no llegan al nivel de lo que ofrece el buscador de personas Whozat, cuyos resultados hacen parar los pelos. No sólo desconocidos tienen acceso a fotos y datos básicos, sino que éstos llegan a niveles bastante más íntimos”

Whozat: un excelente buscador de personas, escribe Adictosalared.com .Whozat, an excellent people search engine, writes Adictosalared.com .

“Si deseas encontrar a alguien en la red, Whozat es tu solución”, escribe Reportajes.com.

Whozat was down for part of Sunday, and then after we restored it, we made a mistake resetting the DNS that caused errors for users going to www.whozat.com instead of whozat.com. Things are fixed now, and should propagate to all servers within the next 3 hours. Our apologies!

I want to go sailing. As a kid, I used to sail an optimist, and loved it. So I did this search. In Whozat: http://www.whozat.com/search/?firstname=&middlename=&lastname=&tellmemore=renting+optimist+marina+del+rey&search=Whozat+Me&x=98&y=19In Google: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=renting+optimist+marina+del+rey&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=Whozat’s semantic technology correctly interpreted my query, and its first result was about sailing in Marina del Rey. In contrast, Google showed me ads like this:

Marina Del Rey Apartments

1. Thousands of Westside Listings.Find the Perfect Apartment Today!www.WestsideRentals.comGoogle CheckoutMarina Del Rey Apartments
2. and the following search result as the top one, with similar ones ranked below:
3. 
   

   Marina Pointe Apartment Ratings, Reviews, Map, Rents, and other …

   Find the best-rated Marina Del Rey apartments for rent near Marina … 02/20/ 2008, 

   I am a perfectionist, and an optimist, and I like it at Marina Pointe! 

    

   Yet Google has very relevant search results and ads it failed to show, as can be seen from this query:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=renting+optimist+boats+marina+del+rey&btnG=Searchwhich shows these ads:
   

   Optimist Sailboat

   1. Zoum - highest quality racer- best equipedwww.ZoumUSA.com

   2. and this search result as top result:

   3. 
      

      Boat Rentals - Newport Beach, Marina del Rey, Oceanside, Long Beach

      Rent a Boat in Oceanside, Newport Harbor, Long Beach or Marina del Rey. Get discounts with eCrew - FREE signup!www.boats4rent.com/ 

       

    

Just go to the Whozat facebook page and the Qless facebook page for special photos, videos and other fans.

–Alex