WOT Services
WOT Services, Ltd is a Finnish company that runs the partly crowdsourced Internet website reputation rating tool WOT (Web of Trust). The installed WOT browser add-on, available for Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer, shows its users the reputations of websites, which are calculated through a combination of user ratings and data from other sources. To generate revenue WOT licenses the use of its reputation database to other businesses.
History
WOT was founded in 2006 by Sami Tolvanen and Timo Ala-Kleemola, who wrote the WOT software as post-graduates at the Tampere University of Technology in Finland. They launched the service officially in 2007, with serial entrepreneur and angel investor Esa Suurio as CEO. In November 2009 Suurio moved on to his next endeavor.
In 2009 MySQL founder Michael Widenius invested in WOT and became a member of the board of directors.
The company has partnered with Facebook, hpHosts, LegitScript, Mail.ru, Panda Security, Phishtank, GlobalSign and TRUSTe.
WOT
Wot, WOT, WoT or wot may refer to:
Acronyms
- WOT Services, the group that develops a community-based safe Web-surfing tool
Other uses
Wot (song)
"Wot" is a 1982 single by English musician Captain Sensible released by A&M Records. The song was produced by Tony Mansfield and features the group Dolly Mixture on backing vocals. The song charted in the United Kingdom and was a specialist hit in the United States, but enjoyed its greatest success in continental Europe.
Production
"Wot" is a song written by Captain Sensible and produced by Tony Mansfield. The song features backing vocals from Dolly Mixture.
Style
AllMusic described the single "Wot" as a "radio-friendly slices of lighthearted keyboard-based pop".
Release
"Wot" was released on A&M Records. In the United Kingdom, "Wot" was in the United Kingdom charts for seven weeks, peaking at number 26. In the United States, "Wot" peaked on Billboards's Hot Dance Club Play Singles chart at number 24. In France, the single was certified gold by the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique (SNEP) and sold about 744,000 copies.
"Wot" was performed by Captain Sensible on Top of the Pops with Dolly Mixture as the backing group. Dolly Mixture had mixed feelings about appearing on Tops of the Pops so often as it led to them being recognized more as backup musicians than for their own work.
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