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- The Global Heartbeat of Snooth
To look at the serene surface of our website, you would never guess how much raw data moves throughout its underbelly on a day-to-day basis. Every morning, we cycle around a million prices through our database. Every week, around one thousand new people find our site and set up accounts, and most of them bring at least a few reviews to the site with them. Every month, we deliver 1.5 million search results. These requests are received with the persitance of a beating heart, albeit a bit more arrhythmic in nature.
This ballet of epic proportions mostly goes off quietly, without a hitch. So, we thought it would be impressive to visualize the epic breadth of what happens on our site every day, using an increasingly popular technique of live geo-coding.
By visiting the Snooth Pulse, you can get a true sense of what kind of data we are dealing with. The screens will update when new searches are run. Your browser will refresh every second, so it's not accurate to the fractional second, but you can still get the idea. It's still mesmerizing to see the searches come from all over the world. You can even check out the screensaver version, and put your browser into fullscreen, if you want to take the Pulse Experience to the next level.
The truly exciting part is that we're still growing, and as we do, the Snooth Pulse will become a blur of activity!
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3027 - Reply by Philip, Sep 16, 2008.
I love this thing, by the way. Its pretty mesmerizing to just sit and watch it
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455 - Reply by oceank8, Sep 16, 2008.
Amazing to think just how much data comes through. And again, gotta hand it to all of you for pulling most of this off without a hitch. I also applaud the way you still have time to post and deal with anyones concerns so quickly. Very cool!
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- Reply by Philip, Sep 16, 2008.
Thanks Ocean - seeing the data flash across the screen is still fun for us. Knowing the headline figures (1.5 million searches per month) is way different than actually watching it flash by.
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15 - Reply by Ryan Moynagh, Sep 16, 2008.
I saw the prototype in action, but this is even better than I expected. Great job guys!
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- Reply by Philip, Sep 16, 2008.
Its the screensaver that i recommend: http://pulse.snooth.com/screensaver/
And thanks Ryan. Guess the crappy Philippines internet connection didnt do this thing justice!
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1245 - Reply by mark, Sep 18, 2008.
Really hits home how many people worldwide are interested in wine!
(And using Snooth!)
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92 - Reply by Sung, Sep 18, 2008.
I think it's pretty mesmerizing. I just saw someone in New Hampshire type a search for "wine". Will probably yield many many results. ;-P
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- Reply by Philip, Sep 22, 2008.
there are a few "wine", "red", "wet" and the like, but it gives solid proof that most people using snooth are very directed with specific requests...
