40 million Web Of Trust installations
Web Of Trust (WOT) - reached a new milestone in the number of installations - 40 million . The company's technology is based on processing user opinions about sites and helps them find reliable sites. The milestone was also achieved thanks to the recent integration of the WOT extension into the browser of the largest Internet company - Mail.ru.
WOT is a free browser extension coined by two students from Tampere University of Technology (Finland). In August 2008, the number of installations reached 1 million, and already in March 2010 the bar of 10 million was overcome. In 2011 - 20 million, and 30 million in January 2012. The 40 millionth milestone was taken just 7 months later.
“WOT relies on its users, who rate millions of sites based on their experience,” said Marcus Suomi , executive director of Web of Trust. “The more users with us, the more effective and valuable the service for the entire community. That's why his growth is important to us. ”
The WOT tool helps users find reliable sites by displaying a traffic light icon next to links. A certain color indicates the degree of trust in the site.
“Trust” is calculated based on the opinions of millions of users and information from additional technical sources. You can become a WOT user by downloading an add-on to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera are supported).
Reputation ratings protect users around the world from specific problems that classic antiviruses cannot protect against: dubious site content, suspicious or unreliable online stores, potential leakage of personal data, and "not for children" sites. Information from WOT is used today by companies such as Facebook, Mail.ru, Fotostrana, GlobalSign, DuckDuckGo and others.
About WOT Services
WOT Services Ltd. ( www.mywot.com ), founded in 2006, specializes in the development and provision of software and services to protect the online community from malicious content and fraudulent activities.
The uniqueness of the protection provided by WOT lies in the fact that users themselves evaluate sites by adding to the WOT database. WOT is a free add-on to all popular browsers that warns the user when searching for information or making purchases about potentially unsafe web pages. At the moment, more than 37 million sites have received an estimate thanks to the participation of more than 40 million users.
WOT is a free browser extension coined by two students from Tampere University of Technology (Finland). In August 2008, the number of installations reached 1 million, and already in March 2010 the bar of 10 million was overcome. In 2011 - 20 million, and 30 million in January 2012. The 40 millionth milestone was taken just 7 months later.
“WOT relies on its users, who rate millions of sites based on their experience,” said Marcus Suomi , executive director of Web of Trust. “The more users with us, the more effective and valuable the service for the entire community. That's why his growth is important to us. ”
The WOT tool helps users find reliable sites by displaying a traffic light icon next to links. A certain color indicates the degree of trust in the site.
“Trust” is calculated based on the opinions of millions of users and information from additional technical sources. You can become a WOT user by downloading an add-on to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera are supported).
Reputation ratings protect users around the world from specific problems that classic antiviruses cannot protect against: dubious site content, suspicious or unreliable online stores, potential leakage of personal data, and "not for children" sites. Information from WOT is used today by companies such as Facebook, Mail.ru, Fotostrana, GlobalSign, DuckDuckGo and others.
About WOT Services
WOT Services Ltd. ( www.mywot.com ), founded in 2006, specializes in the development and provision of software and services to protect the online community from malicious content and fraudulent activities.
The uniqueness of the protection provided by WOT lies in the fact that users themselves evaluate sites by adding to the WOT database. WOT is a free add-on to all popular browsers that warns the user when searching for information or making purchases about potentially unsafe web pages. At the moment, more than 37 million sites have received an estimate thanks to the participation of more than 40 million users.