Krawler[x] was born in the summer of 2004 and is a privately held company based in California, US and Pune, India. We're building a platform for community based collaboration and networking.

• Background

  Have you ever tried searching for some content lately? If yes, you would've probably Googled to text-search billions of pages using the closest & most relevant phrases you could come up with. Then you would've mined hundreds of links to see whether those made any sense to you. Hardly an easy task!

• Next, even if you were lucky enough to find relevant content - could you
  • Contact the content writer?
  • Was the version you found the latest one?
  • How many others had gone through the same content, and what did they do to find the right content?
  • Could you locate or talk to any?
• No?

  Searching for content is a difficult experience. Same problem exists with finding content creators, co-learners and experts as well. Social Networks, in a way, solve the problem of finding people. These web based networks let you find and connect to people on the web - and form a peer community.

• Wait - did you say Social Network + Peer to Peer?

  Peer to peer is not a new concept. The Internet was founded upon this principle. But the concept shifted to a World Wide Web model in the mid nineties with central web servers and dissemination of rich media through the common web browser.

  Peer to Peer is founded on a principle of decentralized information. The content is created and stored on the edge of the network and distributed directly with other users. Learning is about People to People, too.

  Thus, if social networks can be evolved to an elaborate peer based rich network, there can be an enormous potential of sharing content. One can envision a parallel web, where people are free to create their own private and public communities and the content is stored on the edges of the network - the PC.

• So what the heck is Krawler[x] anyway?

  Krawler[x] is a social network weaved around collaboration and content. Krawler[x] is a Desktop based Social Collaboration Network.

• A what?

  Krawler[x] is a full-fledged tool to create, share, search and securely manage communities and content - stuff like Office Documents, Presentations, Help-files & Tutorials, Assignments, Project Data, Whitepapers etc. Krawler[x] lets you create your own personal secure social network right from your desktop.

  Web-based Social Networks have been around for quite some time. Krawler[x] takes social networking to the next logical step. It lets you build on it. Krawler[x] provides an interface to find and interact with people who are part of a community, not necessarily bound by Geographic or Institutional boundaries.

  Krawler[x] lets you share your knowledge. Right from your desktop.

• That sounds cool! Tell me more

  Technically, Krawler[x] serves as a personal Learning and Content Management System. It has a built in course content editor, quiz, and assessment creator and complete tools to manage and publish content effectively. Krawler[x] also incorporates military grade end-end encryption.

  Krawler[x] will be the first application to provide secure, fast and context sensitive peer-to-peer document search.

  Krawler[x] aims to become the hub of network communities and content providers.

  Krawler[x] has it's own version of torrent and other peer to peer protocols to create a seamless tool that serves as content creator, content publisher, content sharer and distributed content search engine.

Well, if you're heard or seen f[x], you know Krawler[x]

Right here!
Download page.

Well, no. We know that's a major drawback, but Krawler[x] prohibits sharing of copyrighted and media content. Atleast as of now. Let Krawler[x] be about non-media content. You can find all nice stuff on standard p2p networks anyway. (Yes, we know how torrent took off.)