eldavojohn's Journal: Alpha Wikia Search Available

So, as you may have heard, the Alpha for Wikia Search has been launched and it is interesting. The UI is clean and looks very mellow in bluish cloudy ways.

Oddly though they had nothing when I searched for 'slashdot' so instead I tried searching for 'bears' to get a result.

The most interesting aspect is the 'miniarticles' that I had the option to start at the beginning of the search results. The purpose of these are mentioned briefly as "Short definitions, Disambiguations, Photos, See also."

I wonder what will start to pop up there and/or why they didn't take shortened versions of wikipedia to seed that. Well, to be fair this is an Alpha and they have a disclaimer:

We are aware that the quality of the search results is low.