Data protectors: people search engine incompatible with German law
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| The portal publishes comparatively comprehensive short biographies of the
| person recorded, whereby they draw upon information from public sources like
| Wikipedia, news articles, websites of individuals or companies and from
| social networks like MySpace, Xing or Facebook.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94542/from/rss09
Google's growth has come at a price
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| Just as open-source developers openly published the software code behind
| alternatives to the Windows operating system and Microsoft's Internet
| Explorer, Wales' programmers will publicly disclose their algorithms for
| ranking results in the Wikia Search project.
|
| Still, open-source software could be far less of a challenge for Google than
| it was for Microsoft.
|
| Google already makes liberal use of open-source software, including Linux,
| GNU tools, OpenSSL, MySQL and computer languages like Python and C. Hundreds
| of Googlers have worked on improving Linux. And Google has published more
| than a million lines of code under open-source licenses, according to a
| company representative.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_6662571?nclick_check=1
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Jimmy Wales talks on the future of Wikimedia
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| The role Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, plays at the organization that
| supports the user generated and edited encyclopedia is changing as he shifts
| more of his time to activities in the wiki and open-source communities and
| shares time with his for-profit venture, Wikia Inc.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070813/tc_infoworld/90951
Google faces more than just a new rival in Wikia
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| Google and other search engines face far more than just a new rival in Wikia,
| they face the prospect of hundreds, even thousands of new competitors.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1078979076&rid=-50
Will Google Be Destroyed By Open Source Search Engines?
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| In May I predicted that Google would probably die not from direct competition
| with a new, direct rival but from competition from an army of tiny, but by
| the challenge posed by thousands specialty search engines and Web apps.
|
| We've seen Technorati and Blinkx beat Google at its newer search initiatives.
| How many more little search engines will we see once Wikia goes live?
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/will_google_be_1.html
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Says He Refuses To Bow To Chinese Officials Like
Google & Yahoo Did.
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| Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales has indicated that he will try to talk with
| China about their decision to block his user-updated online encyclopedia.
| Although Wikipedia’s content is currently blocked in China,
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http://www.ceosmack.com/2007/08/04/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-says-he-refuses-to-bow-to-chinese-officials-like-google-yahoo/
http://tinyurl.com/23o6t6
Wikipedia co-founder to test quality control idea
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| Florence Nibart-Devouard, chair of the board of trustees at the Wikimedia
| Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, said the color-coding idea won widespread
| support from community members attending Wikimania 2007. "We're definitely
| going to support further research and development of this idea," she said.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2031237369&rid=-50
Human-based search engine looks to hire would-be searchers
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| Mahalo said it is looking for part-time guides who have previous
| experience at Wikipedia, a well-known blog, a social news site or
| a social bookmarking site.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=623768654&rid=-50
Search Wikia hires Jabber founder, expands concept
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| Wales announced late last year that he was developing the Search
| Wikia offering. "The basic concept of the search project is that I
| want to create a completely transparent, open-source, freely
| licensed search engine," he said.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/050107-search-wikia-hires-jabber-founder.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
http://tinyurl.com/387zlj
Planning Lessons the Wiki Way
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| The success of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia that is maintained
| by volunteers and revised by almost anyone with Internet access, has
| sparked an interest in fostering open source online communities that
| focus on the free sharing of ideas.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/58576.html
The pedia phenomenon
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| I have decided most critics of Wikipedia miss the point.
|
| They focus on the wiki aspect, the idea that many contributors can offer
| their input, and the chance that some of that input is wrong.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1267
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