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  • Will Search Wikia capture the imagination?

    Search WikiaThere’s a new search engine making the rounds this week called Search Wikia, big deal, right?

    Well, maybe. See, this search engine has two pretty interesting things going for it
    1) It’s being built by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and
    2) It’s billed as a freely licensed (open source) search engine

    Both of these add up to mean that there will be a big splash, big following immediately – at least for curiosity sake – and the results will be built, added to, improved and monitored by the community, much like Wikipedia. It’s really still a mystery whether this will produce a better search experience (they even admit the results are poor at the moment), but I think this one is worth watching and jumping into a little early.

    At the very least go in there an build a keyword rich profile, just remember don’t spam this community, it’s not nice and they are vigilant.

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    Posted by: John Jantsch on Jan 08, 08 | 10:10 am
    Category: Search Engines, Wikipedia, wiki | Tags:

    Comments
    • How do you think this will aid the online marketer or the blogger?
    • John Jantsch
      Karl,

      I think time will tell. the idea is that this would be a more democratic, eyes on page way to rate and index content.
    • I'm still waiting to see what happens with it. I have been using grub since august - and its less than stable. But I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with search wikia. One thing is for sure the number of posts on the newsletter has gone crazy.
    • There was another community search engine launched last week at earthfrisk.org. Press releases are online and for marketers, the right side panel keywords for searches are in play or can be bought. The search engine also has it's own toolbars for Firefox and IE and is far more Deomocratic allowing voting and comments that translate to the search bar. All can be seen online without downloading the toolbars.
      Jimmy does some great work and I have no doubts that his new search engine will be decent. EarthFrisk.org serves the purpose for marketers who can claim their name;s for free, complete with links and bio's and so on.
    • Currently, it provides a lot of invalid and foreign language results. I think once they can figure out the auto filtering process by location and language, it will be better.
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