Wikipedia Founder To Launch Search Engine On Jan. 7
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales will be launching an open source search engine on January 7, 2008. The search engine will differ from Google and Yahoo in that users will be able to see how search results are arrived at.
So far, the Wikia Search Project has a working search application, a web crawler, and a search algorithm. Closed beta testing is currently going on before the scheduled public launch.
Obviously, the search engine won’t have as many available results at the start. It will take some time for its crawler to build a sizable list comparable to the big boys. It will be interesting to see how many people use it regularly.
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December 27th, 2007 12:17
Good news, lets see how its able to compete with the big giants.
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December 28th, 2007 00:53
Let’s see what Jimmy Wales has in store for us this time
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December 28th, 2007 01:47
I m eagerly waiting for the search engine.
I m even thinking of involving in the project but dont know how to..
My blog should help me.
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December 28th, 2007 16:12
@Nirmal:
I hope it does well
@Haris:
Heh it might just have a chance
@pc:
Let me know if you do get involved