Yesterday Wikia launched a new type of search engine: Wikia Search, with results that rely on users’ input and open-source software. Wikia, on the other hand, is a for-profit company cofounded in 2004 by Wales (co-fouder Wikipedia) and British Internet entrepreneur Angela Beeseley under the original name Wikicities.
What separates Wikia Search from many other Web-search tools, including Google’s, is that it will incorporate human input with methods based on computer programs. A potentially more important distinction is that Wikia will publish the code underlying the search engine. Opening the source code fits with the growing movement in the field of technology, including within Google, toward open software.
Sphere: Related ContentStill, Wales says it may take at least two years for the engine to reach the standard set by Google and competitors such as Yahoo! and Microsoft’s search tool. That may be too long for impatient Web surfers, says Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of the Search Engine Land Web site. “If it doesn’t come through the first time—that’s it,” he says. “People won’t go back again when there are so many other options.”
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