Much awaited Search Engine makes its official debut
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.
Website Monitoring Guy Said,
June 16, 2008 @ 6:24 am
Unfortunately Wikia’s search produces too many irrelevant search results. I think they need to do a lot to improve the quality, otherwise they’ll never become a ‘google killer’ (heard this phrase in one of the news describing wikia search).