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Attention Frontier whitepaper

What's a crawler?  It's a 15-year-old idea about how to build an index, and is part of the foundation of determining what's good on the web today, for pretty well all search-related services you use.

Wowd takes a different approach, based on an analysis of what we call the "Attention Frontier".  This approach has significant benefits in terms of being able to keep up with the volume and velocity of new material entering the web.

You can get the Attention Frontier whitepaper here: http://wowd.com/publications/AttentionFrontier.pdf

The Buzz on Wowd

Wowd has launched its public Beta.  Here's some of the buzz:

InventorSpot, by Ron Callari

Google and Wowd Putting Humans Back Into the Search Equation

ReadWriteWeb, by Jolie O'Dell

Real-time Search Start-ups on Google/Bing/Twitter News:  Who Will Prevail, Who Will Profit?

Daily Finance, Alex Salkever

Meet Wowd, a peer-to-peer search engine that could challenge Google

TechCrunch, by Erick Schonfeld

Wowd Takes a Stab at Realtime Search with a Peer-to-Peer Approach

For more articles, see Wowd's press page

Wowd version 1.3.1 released

Wowd version 1.3.1 has been released. This version contains several bug fixes and performance improvements.

It was brought to our attention that the Wowd web application contained a bug that created a "non-persistent" cross-site scripting security vulnerability. We fixed this bug on our web site on October 28, the day after it was discovered, and have fixed it in version 1.3.1. To our knowledge, no exploit for this bug was actually attempted and none of our users were affected.

As of tonight, the 1.3.1 update has been applied to approximately 98% of running Wowd instances through the auto-update mechanism.

Please contact me or email us at feedback@wowd.com if you have any questions.