Wikia Search, a community-driven search engine, will get its first public preview on Monday, according to co-founder Jimmy Wales.
In an e-mail sent to the Wikia Search mailing list on December 24, Wales wrote that he aims to make the initial version of the search tool available in alpha form. "We want to run over the system with help from people to complain about what is broken," he wrote.
Wales, who also co-founded user-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia, hopes Wikia Search will eventually rival other search companies by making the way in which search results are arrived at more "transparent."
"The desire to collaborate and support a transparent and open platform for search is clearly deeply exciting to both open source and businesses," Wales said in a statement in July. "Look for other exciting announcements in the coming months as we collectively work to free the judgment of information from invisible rules inside an algorithmic black box."
Wikia Search is part of Wikia, a wiki-hosting company co-founded by Wales.
This 'open' logic will ultimately best google. Imagine the advantages in using open source search logic in personal information managers like zoho, and edeskonline.
1st, this Wikia search is a complete copy (theft of IP & idea) of AnooX which pioneered the "people powered search engine". You can see anoox here: www.anoox.com
2nd, Wikia search does not really work in regard to people powering its search results. That is it is nothing like how Anoox easily & transparently allows people to affect the search results by simply clicking on the button next to each listing to move it Up, Down, etc.
3rd, what makes Anoox great is not only that Anoox allows people to democratically generate the search results, but it is also the following aspects of Anoox: 1- Anoox is operated on a Not-profit-motivated basis, so cost of Advertising on Anoox is much lower as a result, 2- People who make Anoox their preferred search engine can share in Anoox Ad revenues 3- Anoox is operated on a new Open source license model in an Open fashion
Wikia approach involves building a whole new community
Looks like the Wikia approach involves building a whole new community in order to build up the relevance of search results. Instead of starting on a clean slate, how about leveraging on the current leading social bookmarking communities (e.g. del.icio.us) to enhance the combined metasearch results from the major search engines (Google, Yahoo! Search, Windows Live Search)?
Check out a new web search service called FuzzFind.com (<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.fuzzfind.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.fuzzfind.com</a>) that does this. Results are grouped together and sorted according to the search engine rankings plus the popularity of the sites according to the social bookmarking community.
There's also a feature to allow you to tune and personalize the search results on-the-fly by simply adjusting the weight for each search source through the use of sliders.
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www.anoox.com
2nd, Wikia search does not really work in regard to people powering its search results.
That is it is nothing like how Anoox easily & transparently allows people to affect the search results by simply clicking on the button next to each listing to move it Up, Down, etc.
3rd, what makes Anoox great is not only that Anoox allows people to democratically generate the search results, but it is also the following aspects of Anoox:
1- Anoox is operated on a Not-profit-motivated basis, so cost of Advertising on Anoox is much lower as a result,
2- People who make Anoox their preferred search engine can share in Anoox Ad revenues
3- Anoox is operated on a new Open source license model in an Open fashion
Check out a new web search service called
FuzzFind.com (<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.fuzzfind.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.fuzzfind.com</a>) that does this. Results are grouped together and sorted according to the search engine rankings plus the popularity of the sites according to the social bookmarking community.
There's also a feature to allow you to tune and personalize the search results on-the-fly by simply adjusting the weight for each search source through the use of sliders.