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- Ninjab3ar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Yes, I agree. I also think that Wikipedia has the worst search engine. In order to find the article you are looking for, you must have the spelling exactly right, words that are off by one letter are not found, and your search is then directed towards a long list of irrelevant articles.
- tennova, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15wikiasari is definitely a bad name, real hard to spell. In fact, you already spelled it wrong.
- bdickason, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I think that this is a weak move and possibly just an inaccurate business model. The goal here is merely to capture search traffic, not necessarily compete with Google. That would be like saying every single search algorithm on blogs that don't use google are competitors. I'd like to see him instead increase the scale of Wikipedia to the point where the Search becomes more optimized and is the primary feature. Right now it's really awkward to traverse content and the model could easily be replicated with similar success.
- zeenus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Guess what ?
Amazon is not involved with the Wikiasari project....they are only investors in it.
And second, Techcrunch posted a false screenshot of it :P
http://digg.com/tech_news/Wikiasari_Techcrunch_Screenshot_a_Fake - neilparis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Amazon is not involved: http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
- LightsOut06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6why not wikisearch? wikiasaria sounds stupid
- darkever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4buried: Good story, completely inaccurate. Even the page it's doing an article agrees.
http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page - mousky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You do realize that there are several competitors to Google in the search market. Type in "search engine" into Google ;)
- Lixie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have one big question, Will this new search engine offer search privacy?
Or will they be logging IP's and search terms indefinitely like Google? - parthanant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Indians may find the name confusing. Sari is a key piece of clothing for Indian women.
- H2SO4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'm tired of Google anyway, so any competition is welcome.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not that they said "Google, you're going down!" or anything...
- stuartjmoore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wikipedia has a search? (sarcasm)
I just use Google with site:wikipedia.org - macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this would appear to be inaccurate. going head to head with Google would be a waste of time and money. look at microsoft, the best they can do is try and keep up with Google by copying everything they do.
- JimMessenger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wikipedia Founder Not Partnering with Amazon!
http://digg.com/tech_news/Wikipedia_Founder_NOT_Partnering_with_Amazon - TomP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What happened to a9? thats amazons search engine too
- Diggism, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3That Techrunch guy is headed for disaster. UK is down, and the main site is a filth dump.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Go take a look at the screenshot of this, also on the front page today. The thing looks like a spammers site, the kind that get put up on parked domains to try and generate a few ad clicks. It's just nasty.
- john408408, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this would be interesting. Not sure how he would do it differently than all the other efforts at this.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A9 had/has a nice idea and good implementation. I used it for a while to get the pi/2 discount on Amazon. Where they fell down was that the search results really really sucked. I think at some point they were using Google results but somehow it still sucked. I see now they are using Windows Live. I DO like the way you can get results from multiple engines in a nice tabular format that are quite nicely formatted. Wikipedia is one of the options to add to the tabular search.
So yeah, what happened to A9? - aegis9975, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>>Is it possible that human beings can do a better job of filtering both? I think so...
To a certain extent, most definitely, however it'll face vandalism and may loose the objectivity that other search engines already posses. Expect subjects like Democrat/Republican, Bush, Hilary, Israel, Chechnya, Iraq, Microsoft, Sony, Apple, Nintendo, prochoice/prolife or any other magnet for strong negativism/fanaticism to have highly irrelevant search results and links to a highly charged opinions of a certain groups of people. These issues get further compounded with divisive current events and racial issues. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1not only is the article inaccurate, but it would be stupid for wikipedia to directly compete with google, since google is involved with them financially
- jbeaul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wikipedia is user content? More like "selected" content. The content provided by everyday users gets squashed by the power-user group based on what they feel is signal vs noise. So a lot of expert content gets lost when its meaning isn't understood by the "administrators."
- HaleHarry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Rumor has it that the Wikiasari engine comes from a start-up called searchme.com, formerly Kavam, funded by Sequoia Capital, the same guys who backed Google and Yahoo - there is big time money behind it.
- energizerrabbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google has already been playing around with user-based search results.
- budlight, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0is it just me or is jimbo wales the worst thing that has ever happened to the internet?
i think you should take a look at wikitruth.info if you don't believe so. - Vrielance, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I agree, Wikiasari is not a good name. Idea is very good though, I have a feeling Google is being censored...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Not really. Lots of small companies take on huge ones. You have to have some balls to take on Google...AND actually believe you stand a chance. That's different.
- penchina, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Search engines, like webmail providers are getting killed by spammers. Is it possible that human beings can do a better job of filtering both? I think so...
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1So, funding something is not getting involved? Better tell that to Google, they still think they're involved with Firefox.
- Cglass, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Yea what about A9?
- Blabster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1pointless.
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