Wikia Inc the San Mateo company co-founded by Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales, plans to challenge Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. with a search engine that lets users edit and fine-tune its results.
The goal for the project is to get 5 percent of the search market, Gil Penchina, chief executive officer of Wikia, said Thursday in an interview. He doesn’t know when the service will be released.
“We’re really trying to build a movement to make search free and open and transparent,” Penchina said. “We have some servers up, and people are hacking away.”
By enlisting programmers and users around the world, Wikia is taking a different approach than Mountain View-based Google and Sunnyvale-based Yahoo, owners of the two most-popular search engines, which keep much of their software code secret. Wikia is hoping the success of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that users edit themselves, can be extended to the $7 billion U.S. Internet-search market.
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i like wikipedia…i used the news at my radio station…it’s great
they are asking to be spammed and abused because look at other sites that allow editing like that.
ejoness have you ever used wikipedia? Its very well maintained and this works on the same basis so I don’t see how they will have anymore trouble controlling it then this project. Personally I hope someone programs a user rating system for the search engine a user comment for sites would also be nice with the most helpful comment appearing under the link.
@mountain_rage yes i have looked up stuff there and when it said editable that means you the user can edit stuff just like the content of movie-mistakes.com and urbandictionary.com.
witch means spammers can add their stuff unless they set up moderation like the newsgroups do where all submitted content goes to the moderator’s email box for aproval.
if approved then it is posted if not then deleted
Yes but if you used wikipedia consistently you would realize that all the content on the site is editable by anyone. I once added a letter randomly in a page to see if they would catch it and they did. They are very good at preventing spamming miss use or the vadalising of their site.