When Wikia Search was released last night, Jimmy Wales explained they used a "placeholder index" for the search. While this may be appropriate for the alpha search, I'd like to ask Jimmy exactly how Wikia plans to crawl and index a significant...
Wikia founder Jimmy Wales said last year that this open source, community-driven program would eventually challenge Google. ISPs Collect User Data for Behavioral Ad Targeting, ClickZ News Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news?
Wikia, the commercial site led by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is taking the next step toward launching its open source, human-assisted Web search tool, Search Wikia. Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Wants to Have His Cake and Eat it too!
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Wants to Have His Cake and Eat it too! Alexa Toolbar Accuracy and UsesPhilipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped posted yesterday about how the accuracy of Alexa data is really poor.
Search Wikia Launches Open Source, Distributed CrawlerWikia, the commercial site led by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is taking the next step toward launching its open source, human-assisted Web search tool, Search Wikia.iRazoo: Human-Powered...
Search Wikia Launches Open Source, Distributed CrawlerWikia, the commercial site led by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is taking the next step toward launching its open source, human-assisted Web search tool, Search Wikia.
Wikia, the commercial site led by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is taking the next step toward launching its open source, human-assisted Web search tool, Search Wikia. Speaking at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), Wales announced that...
Jimmy Wales: Google is secret, proprietary, closed. Online News Is Hottest Video Search CategoryAccording to data released by ClipBlast video news is the fastest-growing category on the Video Web. Fair Isaac Pegs Billed Click Fraud at 10-15% – IN...
Jimmy Wales: Google is secret, proprietary, closed. Calculating Search Rankings with User Web Traffic Data, SEO by the Sea Google PaidLinks Data, DaveN moneysupermarket banned by Google for spamming? Search should be open.
Brandt is banned from editing on Wikipedia following exchanges with members and founder Jimmy Wales over biographical entries he considers to be "invasions of privacy. A data push might happen daily, every 2-3 weeks, or every 3-4 months, depending...
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Interviewed on NPR - One of the most popular topics in the mainstream press the few days has been the Wikipedia. Founder Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia critic John Seigenthaler discussed the service on NPR recently.MORE”
Postscript: Just had a brief phone chat with Jimmy Wales. So, come early November when I return from Internet Librarian and the California Library Association Conference, we'll do a podcast interiew with Jimmy.
