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Wikipedia's Search Engine Plan

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-because-you-can dept.

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. Didn't we already run this story and I said... by gd23ka · · Score: 0, Troll

    .. a Wikipedia like editable search engine would be no use if a bunch
    of politically correct environmental-marxists run the show?