Wikipedia Search Engine WikiSeek Launches
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| WikiSeek will undoubtedly be confused with the much discussed Wikiasari
| search engine that was announced by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales last
| month.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/16/wikipedia-search-engine-wikiseek-launches/
Wikiasari will be based on Open Source software as well (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."
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| 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 - $1,000,000 in donations!
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| Wikipedia entered 2007 as one of the most visited 10 websites
| in the world. What could be more relevant as a proof of success?
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http://www.our-picks.com/archives/2007/01/10/wikipedia-1000000-in-donations/
Wikipedia-based Search Engine: Exclusive Screenshot
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| Google is very good at many types of search, but in many instances
| it produces nothing but spam and useless crap. Try searching for
| the term 'Tampa hotels', for example, and you will not get any
| useful results... Essentially, if you consider one of the basic
| tasks of a search engine, it is to make a decision: 'this page is
| good, this page sucks....'
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/23/wikipedia-to-launch-searchengine-exclusive-screenshot/
Wikipedia Inspires Course Reading List Generator
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| Taking cues from the structure of Wikipedia and the algorithms used
| by Google, Alexander Wissner-Gross, a Harvard Ph.D. candidate, has
| developed software to automatically create reading lists for students
| based on the subjects they're studying. He experimented with
| algorithms to find the most important pages and how they ranked
| for a given topic.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/54970.html
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