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Wikia Search Launches Alpha, Not Ready Yet

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the release-early-and-often dept.

babooo404 writes "Jimmy Wales' latest project, Search Wikia has launched into alpha this morning. Most reviews have been negative. The system is a 'social search' and uses the Nutch search algorithm. You can friend people along with creating profiles, and the system uses a Wikipedia-style format for 'mini articles.'"

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  1. citation needed by snarfies · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry, these reviews are not from reliable peer-reviewed sources and all references to them should be deleted. In fact, this whole article should be speedy deleted as non-notable.

  2. Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Highlighted article when I search for "sex":

    Mini Article About "sex"

    Sex is a term which is very often searched in the internet. Thus, a mini-article about pages with free pictures / videos without spam would be important.

    First result for "George Bush"

    George Bush Is A Crackwhore!
    ... handjobs for cash. George Bush is addicted to smack ... some blow.. yah know... like George Bush ...
    http://www.george.bush.isacrackwhore.com/ - Cached - 1.26

    This is genius. I think I know what I'll search site I'll use next time I need some entertainment.

  3. Re:Work on wikipedia's search first by owlnation · · Score: 3, Funny

    But for better quality results:

    1) www.google.com
    2) (your search term here) -wikipedia
    3) go

    Presto.

  4. Re:Aha, can't have proofs, but competes with googl by mindspillage · · Score: 3, Funny

    How dare you try to spoil a good Slashdot argument with facts!