Anyone can now edit Wikia Search
Wikia Search, the open-source search engine launched sometime back by Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, will begin letting public participate in building its index by adding, deleting and rating Web pages. Starting today, if you do a search on the engine and don’t like the results, you’ll be able to change them. Your changes will apply not just for yourself, but rather for everybody.
During its “alpha” period, which started in January, Wikia Search has drawn about 20,000 registered users who have in turn made about 60,000 edits to search results and written about 25,000 mini articles.
The editing you can do on Wikia Search is extensive. If you think a result on a search result page is too low or too high in the listings, you can influence its position by rating it. You can delete entries entirely or hand-write new ones. You can also rewrite the text of a search result, including adding code to the result.
Web Support Agents Said,
June 3, 2008 @ 10:06 pm
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Guaranteed Signups Said,
June 9, 2008 @ 6:17 am
I noticed the same thing. I thought it was pretty cool of them to let people do it. If your logged in it shows your edits with your user name.
Rick Belben Said,
June 9, 2008 @ 1:09 pm
It really is an interesting concept.with the results being edited by “real people” who actually searched for that term. It it was truly successful it could probably eliminate some black hat seo tactics
N. Hunter Jackson Said,
June 10, 2008 @ 7:52 am
People actually do searches? I thought it was all computer edited. Good bye black hat seo.