WIKIA SEARCH TO START ON MONDAY SAYS WIKIPEDIA FOUNDER
January 2nd 2008 10:56
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has set January 7 as the launch date for an open-source search project, Wikia Search, that hopes to challenge Google and other established services, the Washington Post reports.
The Wikia Search project has assembled the basic technologies for a search engine, will allow technology enthusiasts to help filter sites and rank search results, using a community model similar to Wikipedia.
Wikia Search will also be more transparent to end users, so they can see how search results are arrived at, unlike Yahoo and Google’s “opaque” services that don't explain how results are arrived at.
The search project is part of Wales' for-profit company, Wikia Inc.
- From MediaBlab
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