Wikia Search to Challenge Google and Yahoo
search.wikia says
“Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.
Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will change all that.
Jimmy Wales, the founder Wikipedia claims that his company is ready to take on the might of Google and Yahoo, and grab as much as 5% of the search engine market.
Google and Yahoo are both ‘black boxes’ that keep their ranking algorithms a closely-guarded secret. Wales’s idea is to get users to work together to improve search engines, just as Wikipedia users do now.
