Wikia Search Engine to be Launched on January 7th

cagnol writes "The Washington Post reports that Jimmy Wales, the founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has announced the launch of a new open-source search engine, Wikia Search, on January 7th, 2008. The project will allow the community to help rank search results, in a model close to Wikipedia. However the company is a for-profit organization. This new search is supposed to challenge Google and Yahoo."

yeah

[User 956]

The Washington Post reports that Jimmy Wales, the founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has announced the launch of a new open-source search engine, Wikia Search, on January 7th, 2008.

Not only that, Wikipedia is reporting that its marketshare has tripled in the last six months.

Re:Easily Abused?

[Walzmyn]

What this means is that no matter what you search for, the top hundred results will be to porn sites.

I'm glad you told me

[Anonymous Coward]

This new search is supposed to challenge Google and Yahoo.

Really? Is a search engine startup going to be competing in the same industry as other search engines?

I can see...

[Idiot with a gun]

by our tags, that we have a few Wikipedian Protestors [xkcd.com] in our midsts.

Market share of...

[gringer]

Market share of what?

Wikiality

Well that's lame.

[raehl]

the top hundred results will be to porn sites.

What a crappy search engine. When I search for something, I want the top 100 results to be 100 different porn sites! I can find two porn sites without help.

Re:Market share of...

[CCFreak2K]

[[citation needed]]

Re:Search Engine based in Wiki?

[Donniedarkness]

"Interesting that the internet is also populated by the more educated and affluent of our society."

And Furries.

Scary Implications

[Doomstalk]

I foresee someone hacking this system to return goatse as the #1 result for every search made.

Re:Challenging Google?

[STrinity]

No, it is no response to Knol. I have been working on this for a year.

I'm sorry, but your post cites primary sources and thus does not meet Wikipedia's standards.

Re:Challenging Google?

[mblase]

It is actually possible for people to just enjoy doing cool stuff without being bastards about it. People forget this sometimes, maybe due to the reputation of a certain dominant software provider. :)

Oh, come on. The people who matter already know that most Linux users aren't elitist snobs.

Re:Easily Abused?

[martin-boundary]

Such a model would also make it possible to carry out smear attacks and to ruin the rankings of competing companies, parties, organisations, whatever - a practice that IMHO should be left to search engine admins.

Oh yeah. Let's give the highly underpaid, highly overworked admins yet more unrelated tasks to carry out! Can't you people do your own company smear attacks? Why do you want to bother the admins with that? Besides, smearing competitors is technically new content, and content creation is not done in the server room. It just overheats the computers and there's no space to put another air conditioner anyway. Try the art department, but tell them to keep the picture sizes down this time!

Re:Challenging Google?

[Anonymous Coward]

Whores get paid. WikiDrones are just sluts.