This day in search marketing history: January 16
Google explains crawl budget, plus: website outages and blackouts the right way, Google doing 1 trillion searches, and more.
Topic: Wikia Search
Wikimedia Foundation Secures $250,000 Grant For Search Engine Development
Knight Foundation money to be used for Knowledge Engine project that aims to discover "reliable and trustworthy public information on the Internet."
Google: I’ll One Up That Newcomer
As I hinted to with the demo of Wolfram Alpha Google launched Google Profiles, that Google tends to release new features during or around the time a newcomer launches their product. This happened a couple days ago, when Google decided to launch Google Public Data during the big demo of one of the most comprehensive […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 16, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 31, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Wikia Search To Close Up Shop
News.com reports that Wikia Search is giving up and closing up shop. Search Wikia launched an alpha release in January 2008, where Chris Sherman gave it a poor review. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikia, told News.com “It was going to take at least an another year to two before it’s usable by the public, and […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 3, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google’s SearchWiki Struggling Through Its First Week
Google’s SearchWiki is off to a rough start in the user feedback/public relations department, and has already been knocked offline by some kind of technical issue. SearchWiki usage seems fair to strong, depending on the queries you’re looking at, but is it the type of usage Google wants? Let’s take a look at SearchWiki’s first […]
U Rank – Microsoft’s Social Search Experimental Site
Out now from Microsoft Research is U Rank, an experiment that allows people to move results around, as well as share them with friends and add comments to listings.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 8, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Wikia Search Releases Third Party Search Enhancement Platform
Wikia Search, the “open source” search engine that launched to great fanfare earlier in the year, has introduced a new platform (Wikia Intelligent Search Extensions or “WISE”) that allows third parties to provide an enhanced search result—known as a “WISEApp”—for specific keywords. WISEApps allow publishers or searchers to enhance search results, in a similar way […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 7, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search 4.0: Social Search Engines & 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.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 28, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web
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 of upset. But as I […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 23, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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, below.
Preview: Search Engine Land’s SMX Social Media Marketing Conference
Last year in New York, Search Engine Land held its first SMX Social Media Marketing conference. I’ve been organizing conferences for nearly 10 years now, and this one was exceptional, if I say so myself. Every speaker blew me away with great ideas on how to tap into social media to drive traffic and help […]
10 Reasons to Attend SMX Social Media – Register Before March 15 and Save!
Early bird registration for Search Marketing Expo – SMX Social Media in Long Beach, CA ends March 15. Register today and you’ll pay only $1195 for all the sessions, keynotes, networking, and parties. Space is limited so secure your spot now. This West Coast version of SMX Social Media is an encore presentation of the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 11, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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 something useful. For now, though, […]
Wikia Search Launches Alpha Version
Wikia Search has launched their Alpha version at https://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 add to that than simply […]
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 stealth search start-ups? Yep. Here’s […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 24, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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 be letting people in slowly […]
Google & Human Quality Reviews: Old News Returns
A quote from Google’s director of research Peter Norvig in an article at Technology Review about how human reviewers assess Google’s search quality is starting to pick up play on the web and will no doubt grow. Problem is, it’s not news. Still, I suppose it’s interesting to those who are new to the space […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google: As Open As It Wants To Be (i.e., When It’s Convenient)
In two weeks, we’ve had two “open” initiatives from Google: OpenSocial, to free social networking data from behind the Facebook walled garden and the Open Handset Alliance, to free cell phones from a myriad of complicated mobile OS platforms and carriers who want to restrict features. I’ve seen some people writing about open as the new black, with Google showing its […]
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:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 27, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Search Engine Marketing (& Search Engine Land) Not Notable For Wikipedia?
Earlier this year, Wikipedia pondered whether Matt Cutts was notable enough to continue having a Wikipedia entry. Good sense prevailed, and his entry remained. Now debate has shifted to whether the entry about search engine marketing should go. Oh, and apparently Search Engine Land has an entry that might also get deleted, since we might […]
Mahalo Launches With Human-Crafted Search Results
Mahalo, the expected people-powered search engine backed by Jason Calacanis, has now gone live in an early "Alpha" test release. In Mahalo, human editors have crafted the top search results for popular queries. For example, search for [paris hotels], and human editors at Mahalo have assembled a page that lists actual hotels in Paris rather […]
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 well. Eurekster, ChaCha, Jimmy Wales’ […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, Jan. 16, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
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 a revisit to how it […]
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 over the course of the next […]
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 to the Wikia group. But […]