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[News] Open-source Google Alternative/Rival to Launch Within 2 Weeks

  • Subject: [News] Open-source Google Alternative/Rival to Launch Within 2 Weeks
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:25:02 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Wikia Search Project to Launch Jan. 7, Wales says

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| Wales has started to invite a handful of people to test an early version of 
| the search platform, which will be publicly launched on Jan. 7, he wrote in 
| anemailto the Wikia mailing list Monday.   
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/24/AR2007122401567.html

Good for Linux and Free software. Nothing is proprietary (see below).


Related:

Wikipedia like search engine to use Apache Lucene - Nutch 

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| The search engine, code-named Wikiasari, would combine open source
| technology and human intervention to deliver more relevant results
| than the algorithm-based systems used today, Wales said Tuesday.
| "Human intelligence is still the best thing we have, so let's let
| humans do what they do best, and computers do what they do best."
| 
| Wales says that the reason for Wikiasari is that search as we know
| it is broken: "It is broken for the same reason that proprietary
| software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community,
| lack of accountability, lack of transparency."
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http://www.indicthreads.com/news/1062/wikipedia_search_engine_apache_lucene_nutch.html


Wikipedia founder hunts for gold

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| Wales also puts his faith in the open-source model. He cites Linux
| reseller Red Hat (Charts), a for-profit company built on top of a
| free, open-source software foundation. Many doubted Red Hat could
| build a profitable business around something as defiantly
| not-for-profit as Linux, but the Raleigh, N.C., company proved
| them wrong. Third-quarter revenue for Red Hat was $105.8
| million in 2006, up 45 percent from the previous year.
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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/03/01/8401010/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote
http://tinyurl.com/yrxqrn

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