JimmyWales is on Quora Wikipedia founder JimmyWales explains Wikipedia's stance in response. The more important message is that someone as influential as JimmyWales participates in discussions on Quora.quora jimmywales wikipedia piracy...
JimmyWales Whacks Wikia Search Posted by Nathania Johnson Mar 31, 2009 JimmyWales launched Wikia Search a little over a year ago. Wales said that due to a reassessment of priorities, he's nixing Wikia Search.
Coach: CEO JimmyWales founded the company (along with Larry Sanger) in January 2001, and is based in San Francisco. LinkedIn is a professional networking site that allows members to create business contacts, search for jobs, and find potential...
Coach: CEO JimmyWales founded the company (along with Larry Sanger) in January 2001, and is based in San Francisco. Digg is a social bookmarking site. The site focuses exclusively on professional content and serves the video within an embedded...
In TechCrunch, JimmyWales said: "(Wikia Search) is a project to *build* a search engine, not a search engine . JimmyWales weighed in at TechCrunch where a great debate is brewing. Debbie Richman posted two social search engine analyses reviews of...
When Wikia Search was released last night, JimmyWales 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...
Our heightened interest stems from the early pronouncements by JimmyWales, who co-founded Wikipedia. Wales said Wikia would attempt to ‘block them, ban them, delete their stuff,' just as other wiki projects do.
JimmyWales Responds, Battelle's SearchBlog AdSense publishers will be able to view ads that advertisers have directed to their sites via Placement Targeting, and choose to block ads they don't feel are "relevant" to their site visitors.
As Michael Arrington notes, the timing of the news leads to that conclusion as well, since announcing unlaunched products is not Google's style, yet they felt the need to pre-announce Knols right around the same time that Wikipedia founder Jimmy...
JimmyWales Responds, Battelle's SearchBlog It's All in the LinksAccording to Matt Cutts, it really doesn't make much difference to Google whether you choose subdomains or subdirectories for your site.
JimmyWales on the role of Wikipedia in society, Information World Review Matt Cutts Videos on Search SnippetsGoogle engineer Matt Cutts recently recorded a video taking a detailed look at how Google constructs a "search snippet," the information...
JimmyWales on the role of Wikipedia in society, Information World Review Big Site, Big Search at SES ChicagoThis unique session at SES Chicago explored the role and shape of search marketing in large and even global corporations.
Wikia, the commercial site led by Wikipedia founder JimmyWales, is taking the next step toward launching its open source, human-assisted Web search tool, Search Wikia. Wikipedia’s JimmyWales Wants to Have His Cake and Eat it too!
Wikipedia's JimmyWales Wants to Have His Cake and Eat it too! AOL Rumored To Be Changing Name to TMZBill Hartzer is reporting that AOL is moving towards changing its name to TMZ - the large entertainment site.
Search Wikia Launches Open Source, Distributed CrawlerWikia, the commercial site led by Wikipedia founder JimmyWales, 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 JimmyWales, 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 JimmyWales, is taking the next step toward launching its open source, human-assisted Web search tool, Search Wikia. Under the deal, LookSmart will provide text and display ads in Wikia's freely...
JimmyWales: Google is secret, proprietary, closed. New Local SearchSite: LocalGuidesThe site lets users create lists of favorite local businesses, then share those guides with other users. Autobytel Selects Kosmix as Vertical Search...
Amazon seems eager to find an alternative to its dependence on mainstream search providers, investing venture capital in JimmyWales' Wikia. Perhaps JimmyWales and Wikipedia should have started their credential-checking plan a bit sooner.
JimmyWales continues to press ahead with his search engine plan. According to this article in Yahoo, "Wales said collaborative search technology could transform the power structure of the Internet". I also think that the best search engine results...