Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Wikipedia Meets Google

Well, sort of. It's called Wikia Search. The idea is to take a basic search engine and apply the Wikipedia community model to it. The product is search results that can be edited, deleted, re-ordered, added to, rated, annotated, and commented on. The re-released site uses an Ajax interface that allows users to drag results up and down the page, as well as edit the title or description of a result using an edit-in-place feature. Wikia Search is not as robust as search engines such as Google or Yahoo! with an index of only 30 million pages. The community-driven aspects also open Wikia Search up to spam and abuse. There is promise for Wikia Search, however, with the involvement of Wikipedia's founders and Jabber creator Jeremie Miller.

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