Topic Wiki Search Planned

Sunb! · December 29th, 2006

Old but still interesting news

Source Yahoo news

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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

bigcanada813 · December 29th, 2006

well, let's just hope the search content isn't user-edited as well, or you could be finding some very different search results.

Sunb! · December 29th, 2006

Haha, good one - I didn't think of that possibility when I read the news this moring

bigcanada813 · January 1st, 2007

yeah, that could be bad.

stocktrading101 · April 8th, 2007

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yeah, that could be bad.

I don't know, I am actually keeping my hopes up for this one, I think it has a good chance of being successful, If it is implemented correctly and provides good functionality, I don't see why it can't be a good means of searching? Perhaps that is just me, maybe I am with stupid!

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