Search Wikia - The Google Killer?

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Posted by rabbitjoker on Jan-23-2007 21:27:

Search Wikia - The Google Killer?

http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia

Search Wikia � is a Wikia project and serves as a platform for the development of a new free/open source search engine with user-editable search results.

Search Wikia is the development of a wiki-inspired search engine. Specifically community members who would like to help build people-powered search results and developers to help us build an open-source alternative for web search

Wikiasari is not and will not be the name for the free search engine we're developing. It was the name of a former project (see history and comments).

This project has also nothing to do with the screenshot TechCrunch are running (which belongs to Wikiseek), and this search project has nothing to do with Wikipedia.

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There is lots of buzz on the street about this project. With the success and accuracy of the Wikipedia - Search Wikia could be something that impacts Google's search efforts. Search Wikia will be a for profit venture (Wikipedia is not) and has some pretty big investors on board (including Amazon).

Posted by English Rachel on Jan-23-2007 21:42:

ooooh...

interesting

Posted by Swamper on Jan-23-2007 22:00:

Hardly a Google killer... and what makes the thought of that even funnier is what you see on the right column of every page (Google Ads)

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Search Wikia is a Wikia project and serves as a platform for the development of a new free/open source search engine with user-editable search results.

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Search Wikia will be a for profit venture

Sounds like a conflict of interests -- a for-profit venture with user-editable search results? Yummy.

Posted by Cosmic Fur on Jan-23-2007 23:20:

These guys took the idea of Google Bombs and decided to base their whole search engine on it? This is almost as bad an idea as the "jump to conclusions" mat.

Posted by Hantu on Jan-24-2007 00:39:

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Originally posted by Swamper
Hardly a Google killer... and what makes the thought of that even funnier is what you see on the right column of every page (Google Ads)

Haha, I didn't even notice those till you mentioned it. Nice catch.

Posted by Jem_hadar on Jan-24-2007 00:46:

lol

Posted by geroin on Jan-24-2007 00:49:

not even, steven.

Posted by Fir3start3r on Jan-24-2007 01:51:

Interesting and also just waiting for the search hackers to manipulate everything to the www.v1agra.com or www.bigpenisi.com...

[edit] who needs spam when your searches are going there for you?

Posted by VERTiG0 on Jan-24-2007 01:53:

This won't even touch Google. It's dead before it even starts. Nothing can match the great Google.

Posted by Cosmic Fur on Jan-24-2007 05:01:

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Originally posted by VERTiG0
This won't even touch Google. It's dead before it even starts. Nothing can match the great Google.

Can you at least admit Google search used to me much much better? As they index more and more pages the searches come up with more and more crap. I remember back when Google was just getting popular, what I wanted would ALWAYS be the first result. Now it's not uncommon for me to dig to second page before i find what i need.

Posted by me@t k@tie on Jan-24-2007 05:02:

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
Can you at least admit Google search used to me much much better? As they index more and more pages the searches come up with more and more crap. I remember back when Google was just getting popular, what I wanted would ALWAYS be the first result. Now it's not uncommon for me to dig to second page before i find what i need.

You just need to learn to search better.

Posted by adi26 on Jan-24-2007 18:43:

Posted by lopi on Jan-24-2007 18:46:

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Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
This is almost as bad an idea as the "jump to conclusions" mat.

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