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- nailPuppy, on 06/04/2008, -2/+52How can he come out with a search engine when they can't even manage to have decent search results on wikipedia?
- thedrizzle21, on 06/04/2008, -1/+17dugg, but calling it a google-killer is ridiculous at this point. still a cool concept.
- djcreamy, on 06/04/2008, -9/+22***** THING SUCKS!
- SaladCactusKing, on 06/04/2008, -1/+12Search for "Rachel Marsden" comes out blank.. hrrmmm Jimmy
- jtwyrrpirate, on 06/04/2008, -1/+9site:en.wikipedia.org "thing you're looking for"
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -0/+5Wikipedia got as big as it did because it was useful and nobody expected too much from it. Wikia Search, on the other hand, is burdened by uselessness and hype.
- Woknblues, on 06/04/2008, -0/+5Is Google really "all about the search engine" anymore? I think this guy is trying to chase down a business model from 1996. He ought to consider developing more functionality in Wikipedia (a fine product IMO) rather than chasing down a 8,000,000 lb gorilla. Here is a newsflash, buddy: You ain't ever gonna catch Google at their game.
- Farmer77, on 06/04/2008, -1/+6A 100% community powered search engine will never work. People will always abuse it to the best of their ability. Reason why Google works is because they have a good algorithm that takes account of hundreds of factors and no one is sure what they all are, so people can't game the system.
- maninalift, on 06/04/2008, -1/+6Well designed
http://re.search.wikia.com/
No predictions on it's success here - frozen1, on 06/04/2008, -1/+5The problem with user generated search is spam, I wonder how they are going to keep the spammers and bots out.
- ThirdPrize, on 06/04/2008, -1/+4Tried a search for the popular singer/songwriter Mark Eitzel and the results were a joke. I guess this is some responce to Google doing their own encyclopedia thing.
- jtwyrrpirate, on 06/04/2008, -2/+4Clarification:
site:(site you're searching) "thing you're looking for"
Put your epeens away, it's just a bit of advice. - sq2shooter, on 06/04/2008, -0/+3I don't need a new search engine, the one I use works fine. Talk about filling a need that doesn't exist.
- gkwillie, on 06/04/2008, -0/+3I don't care how good your search engine is, Google does it superbly for 95+ of the people that use it on a regular basis. The fact is, only a small (relative to the whole internet) community of users would do any editing, Joe internet won't care enough to switch.
And calling anything a Google killer feels like calling any music hardware an iPod killer. It just ain't going to happen in the near future. - ModernDayDarwin, on 06/04/2008, -0/+3The irony is that I use google to find the wikipedia pages I'm looking for.
- drgmdp, on 06/04/2008, -1/+3it's a very lame thing that it doesn't display the results on different pages, but all in a huge page that adds content as you scroll down
- zedomax, on 06/05/2008, -0/+2Here, I did my first edit on George Bush with M.F.:
http://re.search.wikia.com/search.html#george%20bu ... - peterredding, on 06/04/2008, -1/+3Buried for calling Wales the Wikipedia founder when he was in fact a co-founder.
- amrhassan, on 06/04/2008, -1/+3it's fun, but it's too much of a hassle.. google bots are doing it all for us!
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -0/+2So if Google can do no evil, what's Wikias creed?
- Culyt, on 06/04/2008, -1/+3YAY! Neo-Nazi propaganda!
How dare they have articles about Jewish people in an encyclopaedia.
And strangely enough the 2nd article seems pro-jew. So is Wikipedia evil because it hates Jews or likes them?
☢ - omenmedia, on 06/04/2008, -1/+3The fly-out ads on that Forbes page make me want to stab their developers in the face.
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -1/+3I'm confused. Just exactly why do I need the ability to Wiki my search results. If I'm searching "porn", then that's what I get. If I want to control the type of porn, then I'll do an advanced search, perhaps with the modification (-sweaty, smelly Jimmy Wales ex-girlfriend)
Seems to me Jimmy is struggling to remain in the limelight now that he's fallen from the mantle head at Wikipedia. - jeremie, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1Strange, worked great for me:
http://re.search.wikia.com/search.html#Mark%20Eitz ... - GhostFreeman, on 06/04/2008, -1/+2There's no words in it!
- TechMike, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1It's a search of Wikipedia. I needed a government document that Wikia hadn't loaded and it didn't know where to go find it. Google put it #3, behind some other government references to the document.
- supermanred, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1Why do people insist on making the Google Killer and not "This is different from Google"....its always the Google killer or the iPod killer..and usually they end up with a Zune.
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -2/+2@jtwyrrpirate
That's really interesting, I never knew that. Do you need to wrap your keyword(s) in quotes or follow them with a space? - rblancarte, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1Wales ex- would disagree with you. I agree Google can be gamed, but Wikipedia is abused very often. I don't see how a search engine would not fall victim to the same.
- GeorgeStone2, on 06/04/2008, -1/+3I do that too. In the form of a suffix.
No need for the fancy complicated search strings. - inactive, on 06/04/2008, -4/+5Actually, this thing doesn't ***** suck.
- supermanred, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1So If I am part of this engine can I spend all my time redirecting fellow searchers to goatse and rickrolls?
- xrv1ck, on 06/04/2008, -1/+2google-killer...?
I don't get it. o____o You can't kill google!
This is madness! - elparkino, on 06/04/2008, -3/+4...I cant read that. We'll just do it live then!
- CameronConnor, on 06/04/2008, -2/+3But people are going to use Google to help search for stories to edit in Wikia.
- dstz, on 06/04/2008, -1/+2"like Google" is a little delusional
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1That the nature of the industry. With all great things there is the occasional clinker.
- sg7791, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1Surely you don't have Javascript disabled. That would make digg near impossible.
- christophebrock, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1I don't believe in this. Letting the users control the results of a searchengine is something that will never work. To get the most honest results out of a searchengine, you need a system that uses parameters which aren't easy to control but do give indications of success. Like Google does at this moment...
- inactive, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1If something is going to "kill" google, it needs to be accessible to everyone in any situation. That being said, if you have JavaScript disabled, the page won't even display the search field. Talk about an inaccessibility. As you may have guessed, Google will not only display the it's search field but will remain fully functional.
Please don't get me wrong. This search takes advantage of some nice functionality and aesthetics, however, it should degrade gracefully; or at-least display a "Must have JavaScript enabled to view this page" message in noscript tags. - inactive, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1I had to use Google to find the Search Wikia homepage.
- drgmdp, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1it has been widely demonstrated that humans are not able to bend over and do anything (like could be.. alter search results) for money
- ThirdPrize, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1How many of them were actually relevant, and by that I mean relating to Mr Eitzel rather than just having his name in there somewhere? Maybe less than half. That is not much good for a search engine.
- YodaJones, on 06/04/2008, -1/+2Jimmy is more fun when he is having out in public with a girlfriend who sells his ***** on eBay.
- KireGoTI, on 06/04/2008, -1/+2Search for Jimmy Wales, second result:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis
Swear to God. - pprkut, on 06/05/2008, -0/+1madness?
THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!! - thefinger, on 06/04/2008, -0/+1Right! Announce a "google killer". And when it happens to suck in some way, cop out and say it's still in beta. That's crap.
Work on the damn thing first, then announce it. Meantime I'll do what I always do, use Google to turn up Wiki results. -
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