Out googling Google.
Search Wikia was launched in it's Alpha stage yesterday. Considering it started with NO user feedback and is only 24 hours old I am really liking it so far and looking forward to helping it grow.
Here are a few notes from the creators:
"Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine. What you see here is our first alpha release.
We are aware that the quality of the search results is low..
Wikia's search engine concept is that of trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way. Of course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results are pretty bad. But we expect them to improve rapidly in coming weeks, so please bookmark the site and return often.
Right now, the most important thing you can do is help with the "miniarticles" that appear at the top of popular search terms. These will vary in purpose according to the circumstance, but the primary uses will be:
* Short definitions
* Disambiguations
* Photos
* See also
At the bottom of every page is a linke to "Post bug reports here"... please use that link liberally to give us large amounts of feedback.
I believe that search is a fundamental part of the infrastructure of the Internet, and that it can and should therefore be done in an open, objective, accountable way. This site, which we have been working on for a long time now, represents the first draft of the future of search.
Please feel free to join us, make some friends, and let's try to do something friendly, interesting, and different."
Check it out for yourself at http://alpha.search.wikia.com
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Either...
This is either going to be the coolest thing ever or the UrbanDictionary.com of search, which I guess could also be one of the coolest things ever.
Very nice...
Very nice... Google is getting on my nerves and this would be awesome.
not anti-GOOG, but...
Google has obviously done some great things for the Internet and the ways in which we have access to information, but I think it's time to let Google do what they have become poised to do, which is become the world's largest provider of content without charging the consumer a single dime, but I also think we need to take the indexing of content into our own hands to ensure that requests for information remain anonymous, the methods of indexing are transparent, and we can be sure that we continue to have free and immediate access to ALL information.
You do realize that if
You do realize that if requests for information were anonymous, you wouldn't get that cool graph of how many requests each candidate has had.
It LOOKS awesome.
It LOOKS awesome.