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Wikipedia's Search Engine Plan
jasonoik writes "Wikia, the commercial company founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, reveals plans for a new, editable search engine. They say that the goal of the project is to get 5% of the search market. The service does not yet an official release date. The article also leaves open the possibility that the search results may contain ads, and concludes by listing figures of the web advertisement market." Update: 03/11 17:24 GMT by KD : Wikia and Wikipedia are separate companies.
...which sounded delicious.
Bah, you and your facts. Obviously you're not a Wikipedia editor. Feel the wikiality flow through you.
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
enhancements for body parts I don't possess
...you.. YOU'RE A GIRRRRRLLL!!!
...I love you!
400 pictures of penises, vaginas, and one picture of a penis covered in something that looks like it came out of the OTHER opening.
Maybe there should be a WP article about this? :-)
...
I can feel my Karma burning
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Wikia, the company behind wikipedia reveal plans for a new, editable search engine. They say that the goal of the project is to get 5% of the search market.
According to Wikipedia, that goal of 5% will triple in the next six months.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
You searched for: Bill Gates you got: 400 pictures of penises, vaginas, and one picture of a penis covered in something that looks like it came out of the OTHER opening.
The system works.
>Fucking inaccurate
This is Slashdot, you insensitive clod!
"Wikia is not the "company" behind Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation, which is a non-profit foundation, is what's behind Wikipedia. Wikia is a totally separate for-profit company that is run by Jimbo Wales."
Your requirements for a news service are too stringent: they at least got the names kinda matching kinda nice. Plus maybe they meant behind Wikipedia in a more physical and sarcastic manner.
Plus, they seem to be in the middle of some sort of reorganization there, every article is from a new, different department. It must be hell to do this AND still run the site without interruption.
I want to applaud the Slashdot team for their professionalism: guys, we're behind you.
More often than not, I enter something I'm looking for and it finds the correct article 95% of the time, with the spelling corrected and the missing words inserted. Of course, I have a vague idea of how what I'm looking for is spelled in the first place, perhaps I'm helping the search engine, but really so far I'm really not disappointed with it.
Everybody can do a search engine that works with the occasional typo. Real search engines know what I mean when I'm not even close.
Now I search and my results are:
"Tom is a FAG"
"Bilbo Lives!"
"Search engine optimization: do it the Wiki way"
"In the year 1432, the United States of America was founded by Bill Gates and his horde of windows-operating-system killbots..."
Don't worry, I'm sure there's some 24 year old somewhere who's been lecturing at top universities on the subject of something-or-other for about 20 years now, they're so enraged by this whole incident (hence the foul language) that they're typing a page up right now. Then they'll make themselves a nice little badge for their user page that reads something like "Justice Squad: Defender of Wikipedia", talk on MSN for a bit and wonder what it would be like to talk to a real girl.
At least I think that's how Wikipedia works.
Right, I suppose next you're going to tell us about your PhD & other certifications right ?
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
or more scarily, and likely...
You searched for: Bill Gates
You Got: Wikipedia Articles on how wonderful the second coming of Ayn Rand will be.
You searched for: Vaginas
You Got: Wikipedia Articles on how wonderful the second coming of Ayn Rand will be.