A Search Engine is Born
The public alpha version of Wikipedia's search engine Wikia Search became available today. Following the same philosophy as wikipedia, this search engine is community-driven and open-source.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has stated that Wikia search will attempt to transform internet search bringing transparency and openness to search results. Currently internet search is dominated by a few large companies operating under a cloak of secrecy with virtually no accountability for how results are served up or pages are ranked.
Note that at the moment Wikia Search didn't manage to find any references to any of my blogs (The George Lite Zone, Greasy Truckers Party Food, Coded Languages or Stroll On) when searched for. Obviously they must be veiled by the cloak of secrecy. Still, it is only the alpha version of the engine, so I'll give it a chance for now.
To use this search engine the URL is http://alpha.search.wikia.com/. The main page for Wikia Search is http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia.
Tip: If you're a Firefox user you can add Wikia Search to your list of search engines by going to the wikia main page then clicking on the dropdown list of search engines. You should then have an option to add wikia search to your list.
Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has stated that Wikia search will attempt to transform internet search bringing transparency and openness to search results. Currently internet search is dominated by a few large companies operating under a cloak of secrecy with virtually no accountability for how results are served up or pages are ranked.
Note that at the moment Wikia Search didn't manage to find any references to any of my blogs (The George Lite Zone, Greasy Truckers Party Food, Coded Languages or Stroll On) when searched for. Obviously they must be veiled by the cloak of secrecy. Still, it is only the alpha version of the engine, so I'll give it a chance for now.
To use this search engine the URL is http://alpha.search.wikia.com/. The main page for Wikia Search is http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia.
Tip: If you're a Firefox user you can add Wikia Search to your list of search engines by going to the wikia main page then clicking on the dropdown list of search engines. You should then have an option to add wikia search to your list.
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