Comments on: Search Wikia Takes Steps To Crawl; Acquires Grub

By: Computer Guru

Computer Guru — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:39:16 +0000

I think this is disgusting. Wikipedia exploits end-users to generate content and links, but that’s one thing seeing as Wikipedia is non-profit and all.

But with WIKIA using end-users internet connections and power bills (both of which already cost too much), it’s become Jimmy Wales exploiting the human race to fatten his wallet.

Wikia is a for-profit corporation, people! Don’t fall for this gimmick, support a REAL distrbuted computing project like Folding@Home or Seti@Home and help the world at large, not just Jimmy Wale’s plans to buy a small country!

http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/wikias-outrageous-exploitation-of-the-human-race/

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:11:10 +0000

I downloaded the Linux version – it seems to be from December 2002! Is it really worth putting effort into it?

By: JasonD

JasonD — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:59:08 +0000

Although it sounds nice to have an open source spidering engine, but will the backend infrastructure be open sourced and will the collected data be made available to the community as well ?

By: hoodmonkey

hoodmonkey — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:12:09 +0000

So what stops these clients from downloading illegal material and harmful software to end-users computers?

Even in a protected environment, my ISP might like to know why I’ve been downloading gigabytes of information over the past week which may or may not have included questionable adult material. They might also question my use of the wikia client, but thats another story.

By: wolf

wolf — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:21:09 +0000

www.faroo.com goes even a step further: distributed crawling and distributed search.

By: jeremie

jeremie — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:54:36 +0000

We’re working on getting the client working in test mode, but yes, lots needs to be fixed :)