Real-time search: How a whole ecosystem bit the dust

Yet another real-time search engine has called it a day, causing many to ponder how a white-hot industry fizzled so entirely in just two years.

Last week, startup Wowd announced its team was “moving on.” Many read this announcement as one of the darker stories of the entrepreneurial world: the kind of failure that entails giving investors their money back, open-sourcing the code and returning to corporate life.

In this case, however, this young company … Continue Reading