Since the TechCrunch post, a lot have happened.
I was delighted to read what Matt McAlister (Senior Product Manager of RSS and Social Media at Yahoo) said of us yesterday:
“Wizag is one of the most promising start pages I’ve seen yet with its learning and categorization concepts. The design is awful and the speed is unusable, but those problems are easier to solve than developing really new and interesting algorithms. I’m hoping they figure these things out, because I would love to use it more.”
Matt summarized it really well and we are working on it. We are doing an overhaul of the database and a new graphic design.
Microsoft’s leading blogger Alex Barnett saw what we did and offered to help on the SQL database performance. He solicited help from the SQL performance group in Microsoft (Umachandar Jayachandran, Gaurav Bindlish). They provided proactive technical support, helped us with several questions and the turnaround was very fast. Thanks a lot guys!
We are getting close to finishing the new database design. When it is done, the speed should be a lot faster. Also, most of the new graphic design is up on the site. Please let us know what you think this time.
