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May. 28, 2008 at 1:18pm by Danny Sullivan
Search 4.0: Putting Humans Back In Search
Previously I've covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into "regular" web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be used to refine search results....
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Apr. 25, 2008 at 8:06pm by Danny Sullivan
SMX Social: Just What Did Calacanis Say About SEO & More Recaps
At our SMX Social Media Marketing conference this week, we had a great panel on the future of human powered search. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo, Jimmy Wales of Wikia Search, and Steven Marder of Eurekster all took part. Jason had some remarks on SEO that set off the usual wave...
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Apr. 23, 2008 at 12:31pm by Danny Sullivan
SMX Social: Mahalo To Do Microformats, Search Wikia Adds Alpha 0.2 Features & More
News from the first day of our SMX Social Media Marketing conference. Mahalo is now doing microformats as a way to enhance its search results and allow local businesses to be added to your address book. Wikia Search has gone to "Alpha 0.2" with new features. And other conference coverage,...
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Jan. 7, 2008 at 1:17pm by Chris Sherman
Search Wikia: Not Even A Remote Threat To Google
Search Wikia, the open source search engine from Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' Wikia, Inc. organization, launched today in an alpha version. Widely hyped, typically portrayed as a heroic David vs. Goliath struggle, it's really just yet another crappy search service that may, potentially, if all goes well, eventually turn into...
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Jan. 7, 2008 at 8:17am by Barry Schwartz
Wikia Search Launches Alpha Version
Wikia Search has launched their Alpha version at http://alpha.search.wikia.com/, and boy is it an Alpha launch. Chris Sherman is writing up our long review of Wikia Search and it should be live shortly. Even Wikia said the "quality of the search results is low." There is not much I can...
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Jan. 3, 2008 at 8:40am by Danny Sullivan
The Google Challengers: 2008 Edition
Rich Skrenta -- who, aside from creating the first computer virus, is more notable to search as a cofounder of the Open Directory Project and the Topix news search engine -- has announced he's founded a search start-up. A stealth one, as TechCrunch puts it. Don't we already have several...
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Dec. 24, 2007 at 8:49am by Barry Schwartz
Search Wikia Launches In 2007 With Private Beta
Wikia Search Launches Private Beta; Public Launch On January 7 from TechCrunch has an email sent to a limited number of beta testers, announcing that Search Wikia has launched. Jimmy Wales, cofounder of Wikipedia and driving force behind Search Wikia, said in the email that Search Wikia is "going to...
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Aug. 3, 2007 at 1:11pm by Chris Sherman
Search Wikia Gets Open Source Categorization Software
Hot on the heels of last week's acquisition of the Grub open source crawler technology, Wikia announced today that Intellisophic has agreed to make its categorization software available via open source in conjunction with the Search Wikia project. From the press release:...
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Jul. 27, 2007 at 12:30pm by Chris Sherman
Search Wikia Takes Steps To Crawl; Acquires Grub
Wikia, Inc., the for-profit company developing the open source search engine Search Wikia, has acquired Grub, a distributed crawler platform, from LookSmart. Distributed crawler? Crawlers are software programs used by search engines to roam the web to discover pages that are then downloaded and indexed for searching. The crawlers operated...
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Mar. 21, 2007 at 8:18am by Greg Sterling
PreFound Relaunches, Tries To Rise Above Social Search Din
The term "social search" is kind of a catch-all category now for a range of companies that are bringing people back into the algorithm. Not only are these companies seeking to improve search results with humans, they're trying to differentiate vs. Google from a marketing standpoint on that basis as...
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Jan. 16, 2007 at 7:48am by Danny Sullivan
Wikiseek: Leveraging Wikipedia For Web Search, Poorly
The Wikipedia search engine has arrived -- Wikiseek -- but it's not the Wikipedia search engine you're thinking of. Wikiseek is completely different than the Search Wikia project backed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales that I wrote about last month. Below, a look at the disappointing new service along with...
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Dec. 29, 2006 at 7:37pm by Danny Sullivan
Q&A With Jimmy Wales On Search Wikia
News came out earlier this week that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had a new project in mind, to build a community-driven "Google-killer" search engine. I've just finished talking with Jimmy about his plans. Here's a rundown on his vision and what may come as his Search Wikia project grows...
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Dec. 25, 2006 at 8:56am by Barry Schwartz
Wikipedia Founder To Launch Wikiasari Search Engine Early 2007
Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google by The Times unveils a new search engine named Wikiasari. The new search engine has investment backing from Amazon and others of over $4 million in capital. The "exclusive screen capture" Techcrunch has nothing to do with this new engine, according...
