Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales claims that the search engine they are developing is to become a serious competitor to Google and Yahoo and will take around 5% of the search market. Unlike Wikipedia, Wiki Search is going to be a commercil project. Wales described the two Internet firms as "black boxes" that won't disclose how they rank search results, Wales said collaborative search technology could transform the power structure of the Internet. The new Wikia Search page rank will be composed by users, not algorythms. First three results will be given from Wikipedia and the following results will be other websites with links from encyclopedia. Wikia Search, thus, will be protected from spammers unlike Google and Yahoo. |
Sounds reasonable. It will probably be a good SE