New Search Engine from the Founder of Wikipedia
A new search engine is in the works and is already getting media coverage all over. You may wonder why and the reason is that it is to be launched by Wikipedia’s founder Jimmy Wales.
Wales claims that his planned Internet search engine, Wikiasari, could rival Google and Yahoo!.
Jimmy Wales told The Times of London his search engine, planned to launch with Amazon.com, will use the same user-based technology as Wikipedia. The commercial version of the search engine will be developed through San Mateo, Calif.-based Wikia Inc., with a provisional launch planned for the first quarter of 2007, he said.
TechCrunch has an exclusive screencap from the search engine and writes:
A source tells us that the working name for the project was “WikiSearch” until recently. It’s clear that Wikiasari will be focused on quality first, depth second. Search results will include tag based navigation, the top three results will be wikipedia content, and the remaining results are determined by sites wikipedia considers to be “reputable” because they are external reference links from wikipedia pages.
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