The Web Innovators Group last night showed a welcome change from the high-tech meetup’s earlier sessions this year. This winter’s WebInno meetings were deluged with job seekers – but last night’s group of about 300 seemed to include more people wearing the event’s trademark “I’m hiring…” name badges, or pitching their own companies in informal networking sessions.

Out of the event’s featured “main dish” presenters, three-year-old Book of Odds Enterprises Inc. was the fan favorite. The company is developing a semantic search site that parses probability statistics from the web and presents them in a format designed for consumers. With a beta invite key, you can find out, for example, that if you live in a city, the odds you average less than six hours’ sleep a night are 1 in 3.5.

The beta site’s search engine seemed to be having trouble this morning: searches for common odds queries – like car accidents, business failures and plane crashes – yield no results.

But the audience at WebInno liked the idea. They voted it tops in a text-message vote, over Batch Book, a Providence-based small business CRM software, and Epernicus, a social network for scientists.