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 portion of the web. When WikiaSearch was released last night, Jimmy Wales explained they used a "placeholder index...
Wikia, the commercial site led by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is taking the next step toward launching its open source, human-assisted Websearch tool, SearchWikia. Besides the fact that SearchWikia is an open source project, Wales notes that...
Wikia, the commercial site led by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is taking the next step toward launching its open source, human-assisted Websearch tool, SearchWikia. Speaking at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), Wales announced that...
Search Engine Watch Forums "Wikia has been making more search engine noises. Jimbo Wales spoke at the Commonwealth Club last night, and hinted that some announcement regarding Wikiasearch is coming at the open source conference in late July.
WikiaSearch Plans ProgressingJimmy Wales continues to press ahead with his search engine plan, saying that collaborative search technology could transform the power structure of the Internet. Amazon seems eager to find an alternative to its...
Wikia, the political 2.0, Searchblog Aaron Wall discusses how the use of the nofollow
in this sense "muddies their credibility," by saying, we have links on our web
site that we posted but we don't trust them.