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- bennybertow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+64Ovious direct link: http://www.wikiseek.com/
- headtale, on 10/12/2007, -3/+46Still needs to correct for typos like Google does ("Did you mean...") to be truly useful in my opinion.
- bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26'Ovious'
Sounds like a Greek ovary god.
*cue in regal soundtrack with wind gusts and naked statues of muscle figures*
Oh great Ovious, what hath thy done to betray thee! - sx86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19For the record, this has been developed by by startup Searchme, Inc, not the Wikimedia Foundation.
- bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21It's much easier to type and remember 'google' than 'wikiseek', and that's all the average joe is going to remember. Sorry folks but nuance is extremely important if you want the average person to prefer your product over something else they've been using for years. A great example of this is msn.com. The reason why msn.com is one of the most visited sites is because most computers have IE as a default browser and msn.com is the homepage. What's the most queried item in msn.com ? Google.
- Prototek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Still needs some work. Searching for "Caffeine" on Google brings up the wikipedia page on caffeine as the 1st result. On WikiSeek, the wikipedia page on caffeine is the 18th result. Plus, google has better results.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14I hope this means Wikipedia will finally have a useful search feature.
- bloodylip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"[search term] site:wikipedia.org"
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Wow, it looks sleek like google. But it has a digg button on the page. I think all new start ups have to have the digg button now..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"hey, please do some free advertising for us by digging this article"
- NinjaBoy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+81. Create any product
2. Get it on front page of digg
3. Profit
I think i just figured out the "????" in all the other steps to profit posts. - jtrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This search promotes itself as "a better way to search Wikipedia", but simple searches like Chicago do not return a Wikipedia result, and searching New York doesn't give you New York's Wikipedia page, but rather "List of Registered Historic Places in New York County, New York" and "Theme from New York, New York".
It's a great idea because Wikipedia's built in search isn't the best, but this won't be at all useful until it works. - bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4So tell me...what is 'erganomic data' ...?
- Legolover64, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Still needs some work done, Boolean would be nice as well as Google-esque "Did you mean...?".
Regardless, a very promising idea for a search engine. I'm still waiting on the universal question asker where you can type, "How many Union troops were in the Civil War?" and it'll spit it out. Soon enough, I hope :) - Sanitarium, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I like this, cause the regular search on Wikipedia just searches the titles of the page, whereas this one searches the content on the page aswell as the title. I also agree that a typo correcter would be very handy. Its only a matter of time though.
- SuperMoonMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I used to use another site, WikiWax (http://www.wikiwax.com), to search Wikipedia. It has the search-while-you-type feature, but it neglects to search the body of the articles and instead searches only the titles. It's still nice, though, and it's been out for a while.
- stisaac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you search for "test" it returns non-wikipedia results.
- 75111631, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i would go to wikipedia and search than use this!!!!
- mittermayr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Guess why they didn't call it WikiSearch .... HA! Because I own it. wikisearch.mittermayr.com --- The only WikiSearch toolbar you'll ever need.
Besides, I support numerous languages! HA WikiSeek, take that!
VICTORY!
Uh, sounds like bury. - pirilampo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Pretty nice. They already have a search plugin if you want quick search access:
http://www.wikiseek.com/tools/search_plugin/ - djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@zanimum
Way to make yourself out as a bonehead. Hindu is a religion...not a language.
( Wiki link FTW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu ) - EntrepreNerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2My issue with WikiSeek is that it shows the URLs for web pages that are suppose to relate to your search term from content placed on Wikipedia, but not the Wikipedia content itself. I will not even get into how this can be used to turn Wikipedia into an advertising spam fest if people figured it out.
I have found that if I want to search for anything that is on wikipedia I just use Google.
For example;
wikipedia: US population
wikipedia: 1st man on the moon
wikipedia: where is timbuktu
After Thought:
I would think the more people who use wikipedia in their search terms the more companies can track the popularity of these terms and then be sure to inject the terms into wikipedia in the appropriate places to further improve the results of said terms. - menloboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Mittermayr - I heard they offered you $50,000. Man you were crazy to turn that down.
- mittermayr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2nah, $500.000 + a year free of diet coke. but i told them they must be crazy,... offering diet coke... so they left.
- djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There wouldn't be much point, but it would be interesting. (Which is why it would only be an option. Meaning optional.)
For example: If you wanted to search for every instance of (including reverted wiki-vandalism) where someone inserts "Bush is gay" text in an article.
Or maybe a moderator/admin wants to investigate how many times a user has been slandered on wiki, and by who. Search all revs for that username. - jonahatan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@zanimum:
i think that a great many of non-native English speakers will appreciate the fact that they can search in their own language and link to the English page... or the other way around.. or search for an English term they heard and read the article in their primary language.
I agree with berkes that it's a shame support for other languages is (still, probably,) missing.. - djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1CORRECTION: "libeled", not "slandered".
(I apologize to all grammar-cops out there.) - zanimum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That site is not related in any way to the Wikimedia Foundation.
- atarix64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Mirror
http://www.gnull.com/sites/1168939440_71617/ - ionut, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Got this:
Dear Wikiseek Beta Tester:
Thank you for beta testing Wikiseek! We are happy to announce that the
Wikiseek open beta is now live! Wikiseek is a better way to search
Wikipedia, and Wikiseek donates a majority of its revenue to the Wikimedia
Foundation. Wikiseek also includes a Wikipedia Extension for Firefox that
adds Wikiseek to Wikipedia seamlessly, ~with no advertising.~
There's a great Techcrunch article about Wikiseek up on digg.com. We'd dig
it if you'd head on over and give us a "digg" of your own:
http://digg.com/tech_news/Wikipedia_Search_Engine_WikiSeek_Launches
Make sure you remember to click "digg it" next to our article!
Once you've done that, you can visit Wikiseek here:
http://www.wikiseek.com - Iffrat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1erganomic data i don't know
ergonomic data on the other hand
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=ergonomic+data&btnG=Search - sunshinelife, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wiki this and wiki that - there are so many Wiki projects now there's even a WikiStartpage.Org to sort them all out.
I can not see how WikiSeek is that much different from a pure Wiki search on WikiStartpage.
http://www.wikistartpage.org - adeadwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1None of us can.
- Alexx3k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2haha, you got me there, ergonomic data is what I ment - I'm far too used to google correcting me when I typo! Kids of the digital generation eh?
- berkes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It only searches the english wikipedia. the power of wikipedia is that is /not/ only english. Bad choice folks. /me turns back to the normal wikisearch with a good browser plugin.
- Azimuth1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is it supposed to search just Wikipedia? Because all I get are standard results from the entire Internet, with one Wikipedia result. Which is worthless, because I have Google.
- grafenberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@stisaac
from the wikiseek about page:
"The contents of Wikiseek are restricted to Wikipedia pages and only those sites which are referenced within Wikipedia, making it an authoritative source of information less subject to spam and SEO schemes." - gord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is pretty poor as a search engine. Have you tried looking for things other than Wikipedia articles?
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/iandouglas/jan2007/wikiseek.htm - EvenFurthur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so if you wiki digg you can get to people digging wiki
oh boy - 112358z, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Already experiencing the digg effect:
WARNING: The Server timed out while processing your request.
This can happen when the query contains a large number of words.
Please try your search again, or reduce the number of terms in the query. - esengulov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1like the idea, though can't really get the way it lists search results. I get that top shaded box lists results from wikipedia, but where the rest comes from. External links?
And another aspect is the size of tags, when i click on a bigger sized tag I expect to get more results in comparison to smaller sized one, but endup with 3 results for both(try searching for 'money'). Either I am bad at perceiving their UI or they failed to make it understandable, if latter is the case, then there is still much work to be done before someone even consider to replace it with default wikipedia search, which btw conveniently comes with firefox search by default - brettgian, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1Here is major search engine's crawler name : http://digg.com/tech_news/Major_Search_Engine_s_Sp ...
- ibjhb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's actually pretty funny.
- leopardhunter, on 02/18/2009, -0/+1Encylopediadramatica dot com is apparently some kind of troll hang out, a nasty site. I would advise not going there.
- pile0nades, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It also offers a search engine for the Firefox search bar!
- libertao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Even better: site:en.wikipedia.org Even betterer: (firefox search plugin) http://mycroft.mozdev.org/jsreq.html
- 75111631, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it is supposed to search only wikimedia!!!!!!!!
- d0odx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This site is just spam. BURRIED.
- Alexx3k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Hmm, I decided to enter "erganomic data" because i'm doing a piece of work on it at the moment, google returns a fairly nice list of relevant results - all this gave me was a bunch of utterly un-related links, nothing to do with my search, things like "Core data for mac OSx", and it would seem google is actually better at finding wikipedia articles in the first few results too... not getting my digg!
- zanimum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, despite extensive beta testing, they still haven't bothered to remove this obvious bug.
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