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Qwiki is the worlds first visual information engine
Brandon Davenport
Searching for information has become a very segmented process — type in a query, see a list of links and click through them until you find one that gives you what you need. This is what we have come to love and quite frankly we can’t live without it. Search is in its peak of success, but Qwiki seems to be reaching the breaking point of worldwide success.
Qwiki is the worlds first visual information engine — what that means is it takes a query, say “Dinosaurs”, and builds an interactive video — instead of a big list of links. It will read you everything you need to know about what you searched for, and you can interact with anything you’d like, be it a map, image, video or link to an external resource.
Qwiki at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010
As you can see, this thing can take anything you can throw at it, and spit out a beautiful, interactive video which maybe provides less resources than a Google search, but it feeds the need for info in a very unique, and appealing way — which is an on-the-fly video with narration pulled from Wikipedia and thousands of other sources providing video, images, maps and more.
The best alarm you could ever hear and see
Qwiki also realizes that this technology could be put to use in many different ways, such as an alarm clock shown in the video above. In summary, this is one of the coolest web technologies of this year, and if you want to get in on it, feel free to sign up for the Alpha (we just did) and wait for an invite (like we are now).
Learn more — Qwiki / Official blog / About Qwiki
