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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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wrote, on December 24th, 2006
Yea I have already posted on this at my blog but im not sure if this idea would really work.
wrote, on December 24th, 2006
No doubt why google has started buying other now.Its too much of competition now.Guruji already challeneged and now this.Guess google will be buying a lot of things next year
wrote, on December 24th, 2006
Thilak,
Jimmy has just gave me a feedback about this news and he states that its totally out of context.
Check it out:http://www.techaddi.com/index.php/archive/can-a-wiki-style-search-engine-compete-against-google/
wrote, on December 24th, 2006
Poor Live/MSN, isn’t even mention as a competitor =p
wrote, on December 24th, 2006
Hi Thilak,
I am inviting you for a game on the years ending.
You are tagged
http://www.technospot.net/blog.....w-blogger/
wrote, on December 24th, 2006
the screen shot looks pretty good but the ads in the page looks ugly.. bloated…..
wrote, on December 24th, 2006
Story needs to be updated…
Jimbo commented on my blog and he says Techcrunch’s story is wrong !
http://www.technobeta.com/post.....wikipedia/
wrote, on December 24th, 2006
Good to see lots of interaction going on at this post, but I wonder why TechCrunch posted a fake screenshot ?
Doesn’t it hurt their ethics ?