TWERQ, which means "The Web's Effective Result Query," has experienced steady growth since the it's third release, TWERQ Turbo Charged. with very little marketing. TWERQ's registered user base has grown from more than 300 to more than 1,200 since February 2007. Users have conducted more than 100,000 searches since the third release, bringing the total number of searches conducted to nearly 200,000.

Over 70 new features and Enhancements
With more than 70 features and enhancements to an already growingly popular product, TWERQ Beta RC4 Hive Edition is sure to create some buzz with the TWERQ Hive, the most notable new feature. It allows users to collaborate while searching, marking useful results collaborating them to what is called a Hive List, so that other users conducting the same search can find these useful results quickly. Relevant sites, feeds, stories, images, and video results are added to each Hive list. Users can see these related searches, results added to the list in real-time.
Wesley Long, Founder of TWERQ said "We have worked incredibly hard on this new release and it is extremely gratifying and exciting to finally have it up for people to use. More then anything our goal is to allow people to find and manage information faster. This release is a huge step in that direction."
In addition to adding a ton of new features, the TWERQ team started two blogs to journal their activities. Wesley Long, TWERQ Technology founder, writes in the Official TWERQ Blog at http://blog.twerq.com while the development team writes in the Official TWERQer Blog at http://www.twerqers.com.
"Working on TWERQ has been a very challenging and exciting adventure. I am confident that this release will blow all others away." says Mike Rogne, Lead Application Developer. "I am particularly fond of the hive functionality. Allowing people from all over the globe to collaborate their searching efforts will save us all time."
TWERQ Partners with Picsearch to Power Image Search.
We are excited to now be working with Picsearch, a widely known and respected industry leader in image search and family filtering technology. Effective immediately all image searches will now display Picsearch image results. This partnership demonstrates TWERQ's commitment to providing a relevant and family friendly image search.
Wesley Long, TWERQ Founder said "We want to offer users the best image search results. It is great to now be working with Picsearch. Their expertise and experience in image search technology is invaluable. They offer by far the best image search results and when combined with the unique functionality of TWERQ ultimately benefits our users."
Robert Risberg, Picsearch's CEO said "Picsearch provides multimedia search to many of the largest websites in the world. But we also work with newly founded innovative companies like Twerq. Twerq has some very interesting features in their user interface which are truly unique. Working with pioneering companies is inspiring."
Approximately 11 percent of all searches on the Internet are image searches (Hitwise November 2006). Picsearch is the second largest image search provider in the world and has over 1.7 billion searchable images. Every month, several million new images are added to the service. Picsearch has, since its inception, strived for relevancy and family friendliness. High relevancy helps the user to find the image they are looking for. Family friendliness allows children to surf in safety as offensive material is filtered out by advanced filtering systems.