Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales aims at building an search engine in partnership with Amazon and plans to compete with Yahoo and Google.
The search is said to be using a user-based technology like Wikipedia and involves human input for quality improvement. The project has been codenamed “Wikiasari“. Its a combination of Wiki (A Hawaiian word for quick) and Asari (A Japanese word for rummaging search). The project is said to come out of the labs of Wikia, the for profit company founded by Mr.Wales
Read More: TimesOnline [via Freakitude]
Update: Jimmy Wales has clarified that Amazon has nothing do with this new venture. Thanks Paul
Update II: TechCrunch has posted an exclusive screenshot of Wikia’s upcoming Search Engine:
According to TechCrunch, Wikiasari’s primary goal is to deliver quality, depth is their secondary goal. Search results include a tag based navigation. The first three results will be Wikipedia content and remain results will be determined by Wikipedia’s outbound links. So if a site has more links from Wikipedia then the site will climb up in the SERP page.
I’m not convinced with this system, since the top three results will be from Wikipedia, it will drive lots of traffic to it. But a Wikipedia based ranking is simply unimaginable. If this really picks up, spammers will start targeting Wikipedia for link and it will surely pollute Wikipedia.
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