WikiDo has been developed by Niccolò and Giuseppe Becchi, two computer engineers and brothers that came up with this idea almost three year ago.
They designed an algorithm that extracts events information from other websites, formats and lays out it according to a given template, and then produces a list of results in the form of hyperlinks pointing to the original website source. The mechanism is quite similar to that of any other search engine (such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask? ), the environment essential and user friendly.
The idea is to help people find out about happenings going to take place within the following days in a given location that has to be selected by the visitor. Results can be filtered according to user?s interests, per tags and categories, such as music, sports, arts and museum events (for more details please visit www.wikido.com).
For the time being WiKiDo monitors and returns results about each and every town in the USA, selecting from a database continuously updated. To give an idea the crawler hits an average of 700000 new events every two weeks on more than 10 millions urls analyzed.
Quite interestingly the platform that Becchi Bros managed to set up is scalable. The project is meant to cover Australia, UK, South Africa within the next months, while at the same time the two developers are trying to improve quality and quantity of the data handled by refining the algorithm. In the long run they plan to offer the same service to anybody in the whole world enabling visitors to learn about what is going on in her/his home town with just one click.
The website was successfully launched for the first time last October 2012, highly welcome from the American surfers. For further developments and updates stay tuned and visit WikiDo at www.wikido.com – As Niccolò Becchi pointed out ?today, if you want to be in, don’t miss WikiDo out?.
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