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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.
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.
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.
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.