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Wikia Search Engine to be Launched on January 7th

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wisdom-of-crowds dept.

cagnol writes "The Washington Post reports that Jimmy Wales, the founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has announced the launch of a new open-source search engine, Wikia Search, on January 7th, 2008. The project will allow the community to help rank search results, in a model close to Wikipedia. However the company is a for-profit organization. This new search is supposed to challenge Google and Yahoo."

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  1. Re:Challenging Google? by jo42 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    google is in the advertising matching business And this is why Google is Evil. They use their massive advertising revenue to give away services for free. Much like when a Walmart comes into town, the local shops go out of business.
  2. Re:Challenging Google? by Instine · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Sorry. That was pretty grouchy. But the fact remains, I'm just not sure why so many people seem to think X is good/healthy, is and argument. Saying competion is good/healthy, is about as accurate as saying cooperation is good/healthy. Sometimes it is, sometimes it realy isn't! "Because competition is healthy" is as useful a contribution to a debate as "because the bible says so", or "It's good enough for Microsoft".

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