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Post - Wiki Search Planned


Old but still interesting news

Source Yahoo news

Quote:
The founder of Wikipedia, the user-edited online encyclopedia, is developing a Wiki-based search engine to compete with established commercial search engines from Google and Yahoo.

Jimmy Wales announced plans to develop the search engine, to be named "Wikiasari," or "Wikia," for short, in a December 23 online posting.

The Wikimedia Foundation of St. Petersburg, Florida, which manages the Web site Wikipedia.com, emphasizes that the search engine project is not associated with the foundation.
Read full story here : http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/2006...pcworld/128333