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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.

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  1. This is "informative" by Moryath · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    while my post just above got modded "troll"?

    Someone gave a wikinazi mod points. :(