Wikia Search Upgrades Get Closer

Barence writes "Wikia Search has been revamped with a wealth of editing tools, to build on its early promise of being a more open search engine. The firm behind Wikipedia has introduced a wealth of editorial tools allowing users to directly edit and annotate results with text, images and links, as well as spotlight specific searches or even delete a site from the search results, a change which affects everyone who conducts that search in the future." Update: 06/04 17:32 GMT by T : Jimmy Wales wrote to point out that despite his role in founding Wikipedia, Wikia is a completely separate company.

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Re:Problems?

[FooAtWFU]

as well as spotlight specific searches or even delete a site from the search results, a change which affects everyone who conducts that search in the future." Anyone else see anything wrong with this? I want my results to be as agnostic as humanly possible, which means keep human hands out of my results.

Good. Have fun searching spam.

Seriously, even Google's PageRank stuff relies on "human hands" placing links to documents on web pages.

Re:Problems?

[Archangel Michael]

I'm pretty sure you don't know how Page Rank works.

From Wikipedia .....

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents The results are based on an algorithm, not human manipulation. While PageRank isn't perfect, it is still about as good as anything else out there.

Re:Problems?

[pablomme]

The results are based on an algorithm, not human manipulation. The GP's point is that the data the algorithm uses is supplied by humans (those who write the webpages that link to other webpages).