wiki launch search engine

Could this threaten Google I pray it does.

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080111/full/news.2008.437.html


Earl

 

[danmaull]

its not very good i couldnt find uk business forum on the first page when i searched for uk business forum

 

[shallam]

I think the most interesting competitor to Google at the moment is ask.com

And they've been running a high profile campaign calling themselves "The Other Search Engine"

It has some features Google doesn't have that I like:

bincolulars that let you preview the site,
tools to narrow or broaden your search,
and integrated dictionary, encyclopedia and other information.

I suggest you give Ask.com a try!

 

[ken_uk]

Nope. Ask is not powered by google.

Ask have been around for quite some time, formerly ask jeeves, and they also bought out the old teoma search engine.

Recently the owners IAC have been pushing ask quite a lot, although very recently one of the main people left the company, and has been replace by someone else so not sure how that will affect their long term goals....

I like ask but it has a tough task getting the world to use it when google dominates so much...

 

[Steve2507]

From the article in question:

Wikia Search is based on a similar concept to Wales’s Wikipedia: users will control the content. The backbone of the system is the open source Nutch search engine. On top of this, users will be able to comment on the search results. Eventually, Wales hopes these comments will allow the searches to improve to a level that mean the 'low quality' statement on the homepage can be removed.

People think that Wikipedia has hundreds of thousands of writers. Sorry to disappoint but there is a hardcore of users that write the articles, some estimates pin this down to only a few hundred users, others a max of 2,000. So will the search engine have the same amount of input and mean that only a handful of users will actually control what the rest of the world sees.

Thing DMOZ where an editor can stop competitors being listed and Digg where the users in the top ten/hundred fiercely protect there status and where more "ranking points" are given for articles they digg.

Sorry but giving this much control to a few users will wreck the project before it has taken off.

 

[Gillie]

Yes I get the feeling is Wikis response to Googles Knoll as google did say that when Knoll is launched it will feature higher than a Wiki entry!

 

[Ben]

Hmm.. surely the point of a search engine is to provide the link to a site that the searchers is looking for?

I've tried various terms on that SE and found nothing that I wanted - google gives me what I want above ask.com so I know where I'm staying!