What can you say about a search engine that goes live in alpha mode and publicly admits it is “aware that the quality of the search results is low”? Say hello to Wikia Search, the open source brainchild of Jimmy Wales, the father of Wikipedia. He believes Wikia Search offers an antidote to the “black box” approach of the major search engines. Is he right?
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Wikia Gets Closer to Launching
For all of its inaccuracies, Wikipedia proved that you could create a useful resource out of the contributions of hundreds of volunteers. Now Jimmy Wales, the sometimes controversial founder of the online encyclopedia, thinks he can do it again, this time with a search engine. How likely is he to succeed?
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