Wikia: Open-source search engine coming in Q4
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| Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is targeting the fourth quarter of
| this year for the unveiling of an open-source search engine that
| he hopes could challenge the dominance of market-leaders Google
| and Yahoo.
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| Efforts to create open search engines aren?t new but one of the
| stumbling blocks they face is a difficulty in running large-scale
| tests of the search algorithm, said Wales.
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http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/09/wikia/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
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Video: Search is broken ["it's proprietary"]
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| Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia's CEO, Gil Penchina,
| explained to CNET News.com how they are going to try to improve
| online search.
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http://news.com.com/1606-2-6150975.html?tag=st.rb
Wikipedia founder remakes Web publishing economics
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| Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday his for-profit
| company, Wikia Inc., is ready to give away -- for free -- all
| the software, computing, storage and network access that Web
| site builders need to create community collaboration sites.
|
| [...]
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| Armchair's software is the first of hundreds of freely licensed
| software packages to be hosted by the company in the near
| future, Wales said. These could include popular open-source
| publishing software such as WordPress and Drupal. Consumers
| would then have a single password across all sites.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/bs_nm/internet_wikia_dc_1
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