Comments on: Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google?

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By: Search Wikia takes a step closer to the promise of ’search meets Wikipedia’ » VentureBeat

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:52:50 +0000

[...] — perhaps a little too closely. I say that because while some were expecting to see a “Google-killer“, the site that we saw was instead a bare-bones engine in the very early alpha testing [...]

By: Niche social networks welcome: Wikia open-sources social tools » VentureBeat

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:30:56 +0000

[...] check out our coverage on Wikia Search, the community-based search engine that Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales launched last [...]

By: Overheard: Why do we need Search Wikia? - Overheard in the tech blogosphere

Overheard: Why do we need Search Wikia? - Overheard in the tech blogosphere — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:23:03 +0000

[...] Saumil Mehta, Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google? [...]

By: » Wikia Search: Wikipedia Search Engine Review | Asheville SEO & Web Design Blog |

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:28:36 +0000

[...] Saumil Mehta (product manager, vertical search engine competitor) has the most thorough user review of Wikia Search here that makes others superfluous. Bloggers, If you haven’t reviewed the features yet, wait until the next [...]

By: Saumil Mehta

Saumil Mehta — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:27:42 +0000

Thanks for your thoughts, Kevin.

Chandra,

The issue is not simply whether any user generated content makes a difference. The issue is whether giving up control over the *first* result to unregistered users will improve quality for a large swath of queries over the long run.

Yes, the web is growing fast, but you would hope that the algorithmically generated results would have that covered (they dont yet for Search Wikia, unfortunately).

By: VentureBeat » Search Wikia gets slammed, here’s our review

VentureBeat » Search Wikia gets slammed, here’s our review — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:09:28 +0000

[...] covered some of its business and social aspects and an initial look when it first launched, but have since had more time to tinker with [...]

By: Saskatoon Website Design Tip - Wikia Search: Wikia Dream? Or SEO Wake-Up Call?

Saskatoon Website Design Tip - Wikia Search: Wikia Dream? Or SEO Wake-Up Call? — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:19:03 +0000

By: Dini

Dini — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:56:05 +0000

Thanks Saumil for the thorough review of Search Wikia!Very resourceful!

By: Chandra

Chandra — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:20:55 +0000

I really don’t think that user generated search results make any impact, as the web pages are growing in number so quickly. Google is simply excellent.

Chandra

By: » Wikia Search: Wikia Dream? Or SEO Wake-Up Call?

» Wikia Search: Wikia Dream? Or SEO Wake-Up Call? — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:29:51 +0000

By: VentureBeat » Hakia tries to stay in search engine race, gets more funds

VentureBeat » Hakia tries to stay in search engine race, gets more funds — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:24:51 +0000

[...] when activity in new search engine approaches is robust. Just today, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales launched a new search engine, Search Wikia, that hopes to recruit people to edit its results. Mahalo is another people-based search engine, [...]

By: Kevin Heisler

Kevin Heisler — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:53:34 +0000

Great review, Saumil. Excellent analysis and reporting.

Wikia Search is the first true social search engine. That Google ran a similar concept thru the Labs says a great deal about the potential of social search engines, like Facebook and LinkedIn.

By: Wikia Search终于亮相 | 互联网创业者的灵感花园

Wikia Search终于亮相 | 互联网创业者的灵感花园 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:39:44 +0000

[...] to search as well as its high profile founder, Jimmy Wales , who has led online encyclopedia. Read more. addthis_url = [...]

By: Jim Brower

Jim Brower — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:30:14 +0000

If Wikia really wants to make this a community-generated search engine than the demo attached will do just that – http://tinyurl.com/yvah8w

PredictAd Search Assist has a collaborative filtering feature that learns community search patterns. If you start typing in the demo attached you will start getting autocomplete results (with contextual advertisements) – these results will optimize based on the popularity of certain search terms/phrases.

If Jimmy Wales is reading – take a close look…PredictAd is FREE and its contextual advertising platform gives the publisher something that Adwords simply doesn’t! Moreover, it’s the first Ajax service offered on the web, and it’s a cool one at that…