reuters.com— Monopoly of google as the largest search engine in the world is under severe threat by the plan of Wikipedia to launch community based search engine
Jul 30, 2007View in Crawl 4
a sampling of some of my recent google searches:openssh GSS_C_NO_NAMEkogelnik li laser beams and resonatorsGLIBCXX_3.4.4 not foundubuntu apt-get kde window decorationsbankofamerica alliance deutsche bank bnp paribasyeah. i don't think wikia is going to do much help here.
The thing killed will be ad/click revenue for sites.Why does open require a vow of poverty? Is this really just a rehash of medieval religious torture?Just kidding. Sort of.*********If Digg just sucks for you lately, the default 'user mode' in Opera fixed me. I was watching hourglasses,100% CPU,it wouldn't show the whole thread, wouldn't respond quickly to "Diggs", or "bury" etc.It looks like 1998, but it works again.
furthermore, I'm not sure why you would trust google over wikipedia anyways.I extremely benefit from, and love, both companies, and what they offer, but how can you say wikipedia isn't "fast, efficient, and easy", and on a similar note, you are claiming that the fact that anyone can edit Wikipedia, makes it unreliable, but it's not exactly like you have to be government licensed to own a web page, which could spew anything.And if you're referring to google services such as maps.google.com or Froogle, wikipedia doesn't even DO things similar to that, so i dn't see how you can compare them!!Wikipedia is a community which corrects itself, and adapts to information more rapidly than you might think it does!
Closed AccountJul 30, 2007
a sampling of some of my recent google searches:openssh GSS_C_NO_NAMEkogelnik li laser beams and resonatorsGLIBCXX_3.4.4 not foundubuntu apt-get kde window decorationsbankofamerica alliance deutsche bank bnp paribasyeah. i don't think wikia is going to do much help here.
daedalus17Jul 30, 2007
Since when can having less than 60% market share make you a monopoly? What is it with Digg and misusing economic terms?
chuqauJul 30, 2007
Or even just "Google in Danger from Wikia" - no need to associate everything wiki-related to Wikipedia!
techmaster7bJul 31, 2007
Buried as inaccurate, google is not the largest. Wow, I guess there are more stupid people on digg than I thought.
greenmountainJul 31, 2007
The thing killed will be ad/click revenue for sites.Why does open require a vow of poverty? Is this really just a rehash of medieval religious torture?Just kidding. Sort of.*********If Digg just sucks for you lately, the default 'user mode' in Opera fixed me. I was watching hourglasses,100% CPU,it wouldn't show the whole thread, wouldn't respond quickly to "Diggs", or "bury" etc.It looks like 1998, but it works again.
pavanlimoAug 1, 2007
In the article they have misspelled "Lucene" as "Lucerne". Lucene is an open source search API.. :)
civilcasualtyAug 8, 2007
furthermore, I'm not sure why you would trust google over wikipedia anyways.I extremely benefit from, and love, both companies, and what they offer, but how can you say wikipedia isn't "fast, efficient, and easy", and on a similar note, you are claiming that the fact that anyone can edit Wikipedia, makes it unreliable, but it's not exactly like you have to be government licensed to own a web page, which could spew anything.And if you're referring to google services such as maps.google.com or Froogle, wikipedia doesn't even DO things similar to that, so i dn't see how you can compare them!!Wikipedia is a community which corrects itself, and adapts to information more rapidly than you might think it does!