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Yahoo is testing the integration of data from their Delicious social bookmarking site within its search results. A search in Yahoo will now show whether a page listed in its results is also in Delicious and how it has been tagged.

For the time being, some users will see the Delicious icon as part of their normal search results, which indicates the number of people who have bookmarked those pages along with the tags people have supplied.

Delicious search was always popular for searching when there is no response from other standard search engines. With the new features, it will surely maintain its popularity. During 2005, Yahoo! acquired Delicious, the social bookmarking service created by Joshua Schachter.

http://alpha.search.wikia.com/ - Wikia Search, the most widely awaited search engine founded by Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut today, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can disrupt and reshape this Google-dominated market. Like its older sibling Wikipedia, this new service will be run by a community of users.

Google employs proprietary technology and the details of its ranking algorithm is a closely guarded secret. With Wikia Search, Wales is betting on a very different approach: transparency.

Wikia Search also allows people to publish mini-articles that are added to search results. In the near future, users will be also asked to rate individual URLs.

While perhaps unlikely that Wikia Search will ever achieve the unprecedented worldwide user adoption that Google currently claims, it’s refreshing to see the current status quo being challenged. No one can argue that there is still a great deal of room for improvement in SERPs, and Wikia Search is a interesting step forward.