| Website | mywot.com |
| Blog | mywot.com/blog |
| @Web_of_Trust | |
| Category | Software |
| Phone | +358 40 735 6640 |
| Employees | 4 |
| Founded | 7/06 |
| Description | Website Reputation Rating Add-On |
| Series B, 2/09 Finnish Industry Investment Open Ocean |
Web of Trust (WOT) is an online community for reputation rating that lets Internet users share their knowledge and experiences of websites. By using the WOT browser add-on, users can see the reliability of companies and their websites before interacting with a harmful site.
WOT Services Ltd. was founded in Finland in 2006 by two graduate students, Timo Ala-Kleemola and Sami Tolvanen. After a year of beta testing, the WOT user community accumulated reputation data for more than 16 million sites worldwide, and they have since increased that number to over 24 million and growing.
WOT is a start-up company with investment from sources such as Michael Widenius’ investment company Open Ocean, the Finnish Industry Investment Ltd., and private investors. The company focuses on developing and providing software and services for the WOT community and promotes the community’s goals of Internet security for everyone.
WOT ratings are shown on Google, Yahoo, Gmail, Wikipedia, Digg, del.icio.us, AOL, MSN and other popular sites. WOT works with Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. The user interface comes in 14 languages and has users worldwide. WOT is a free browser add-on that works with Firefox and Internet Explorer.
