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Wikia Search Launches Alpha, Not Ready Yet
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.'"
You announce to the world that you are launching a search engine for weeks. I read this on every tech site I visit. The day comes and I try it out. 20 searches, and not any relevant results. So I see this article here and in the replies, I see people suddenly reposting all this stuff from Jimmy about how "THIS IS NOT A SEARCH ENGINE". Sorry pal. You're a day late and a dollar short. You let the cat out of the bag.
You can't handle the negative reaction to an unfinished product, so now the mountain of excuses and 'reasons' is starting to build up. Google didn't announce GMail to the world, and then release it in a state where you couldn't send basic mail back and forth, before tucking their tail between their legs, and announcing to the world on some blog that it's not ready yet, and was never supposed to function as an e-mail provider.
If it's s project to build a search engine, and not actually a search engine, why does it just present a WIKIA SEARCH logo and a spot to type in a query? I don't see 'PROJECT TO BUILD A SEARCH ENGINE' anywhere. And just a hint when it comes to your database and rankings. When I type something in, I'm looking for OFFICIAL pages. Not tripod pages made by 15 year old anti-corporate hippies who are denouncing what I'm searching for.
You launched your search engine. It's filled with garbage or bad results. Stop making excuses by telling us what it isn't, and make it work like what we all know it is.