Wednesday, December 27th 2006
Wikipedia set to take on Google
Jimmy Sales, the founder of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, is planning a search engine called Wikiasari to compete with search giant Google. It will use a similar theme to Wikipedia by relying on volunteers to fine tune search results so they suit everyone better. Users will have the ability to re-rank search results and change the order in which they appear in. By collecting how the majority of users change results, Wikiasari will then decide the order in which results are shown to everyone else. Google controlled 49.5% of searches in December this year, so the competition from them will be fierce, but Wikipedia was a huge success.
Source:
BusinessWeek.com
9 Comments on Wikipedia set to take on Google
Wikisafari - that would be much better...
* a short-necked clam
Google knows xD www.sanjose.co.jp/menu/asari.jpg mmm.. (not)
And wikipedia knows what google means, how ironic :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_(verb)
edit: didn't know it has become a verb..
edit2: now this just feels stupid, the whole Google refrence on wiki, should have read first, isn't this like common sense xD (I'm tired) andyes, it doesn't mean a thing
and im a huge fan of wikipedia.
I am always searching on wikipedia with google using:
<searchterm> site:wikipedia.org
(Ok, my browser does so for me...)