Wikipedia Founder to Launch Search Engine
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A Wikipedia company will build an Internet search engine that lets users improve on the system, the Internet encyclopedia founder said in Tokyo Thursday.  The Wikia Inc.
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Ask Jeeves will launch a test version of its desktop search tool on Wednesday, following the launch of similar tools by rivals Microsoft on Monday and Google in October, and ahead of expected entries from America Online and Yahoo.
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InfoWorld - Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can disrupt and reshape this Google-dominated market.
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The founder of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia launches a service offering free tools for community websites.
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Microsoft will launch its long-awaited Internet search service that is expected to compete with market leaders Google and Yahoo.
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Search engine Google launches a service that allows users to search and browse over two centuries of news.
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The company behind Wikipedia plans to shake up the search market by offering a collaborate search platform allowing users to improve upon the system much like they do with the popular encyclopedia Web site.
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Wikipedia has started to hit the big time.  Accordingly, several critical     articles have come out, including "The Faith-Based     Encyclopedia" by a former editor-in-chief of Britannica and a very     widely-syndicated AP article that was given such titles as "When     Information Access Is So Easy, Truth Can Be Elusive".    These articles are written by people who appear not to appreciate the merits of Wikipedia fully.  I do, however; I co-founded Wikipedia.  (I have since left the project.)    Wikipedia does have two big problems, and attention to them is long overdue.  These problems     could be eliminated by eliminating a single root problem.  If the project's     managers are not willing to solve it, I fear a fork (a new edition under new     management, for the non-techies reading this) will probably be necessary.
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(InfoWorld) - Wikia Inc. plans to offer a free online application hosting service in the near future, but has no idea how it will make money from it. The company will launch openserving.com with one hosted application, an open-source content-management platform that it acquired when it bought sports fan-site ArmchairGM LLC last week. Set up by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales in 2004, Wikia's goal is to encourage the sharing of information. It hosts Web sites for free, using wiki software to allow its customers and their readers to freely edit the sites. Wikia asks its customers to share their content under a variety of Creative Commons or GNU licenses. "Open source was the beginning. Free culture is what's happening next," Wikia Chief Executive Officer Gil Penchina said Monday, announcing the company's plans at a conference in Paris on the future of social media, Le Web 3. Openserving.com will go further than Wikia's current services, by giving away hosting services and bandwidth, in addition to allowing site creators to keep the advertising revenue generated by the site. "If we give away the bandwidth and the storage, and we get none of the advertising revenue, what's the business model? Well, I don't know yet," Penchina said. The software acquired with ArmchairGM will allow Openserving.com customers to create collaborative publishing sites, combining elements of blogs and wikis. Penchina called for volunteers to help install and maintain other open-source applications on the site. Wikia received a total of $4 million in funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Omidyar Network and individual investors including Marc Andreessen and Mitch Kapor earlier this year, and last week received a second round of investment from Amazon.com Inc. The companies did not disclose the amount of Amazon's investment.
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Microsoft launches Web search technology Thursday that it hopes will give it a share of the market dominated by Google. The new search engine will initially be available only on a special test site.
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Seattle - Software giant Microsoft is hoping to repel a challenge from Internet rivals Google and Yahoo by launching its own search engine on Thursday, according to reports on Wednesday in the American technology press.
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Jimbo: 'I am your spiritual leader' Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales has brought the Wikipedia ethos to his very own internet search engine. But he insists it will be far more trustworthy than search sites offered by Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft.â¦
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has set Jan. 7 as the launch date for an open-source search project that eventually hopes to challenge Google and other established players.The Wikia Search project has assembled the basic technologies for a search engine, including a search application, search algorithm and Web crawler. The project will allow technology enthusiasts to help filter sites and rank search results, using a community model akin to that of Wikipedia.The idea is to challenge the established players by offering a search service that is more transparent to end users, meaning they can see how search results are arrived at. Wales has described Yahoo and Google as opaque services that don&#39;t explain how results are arrived at.Wales has started to invite a handful of people to test an early version of the search platform, which will be publicly launched on Jan. 7, he wrote in an email to the Wikia mailing list Monday.The search tool will take time to evolve, and the initial service won&#39;t match the capabilities of the leading search engines. Contributors will have to develop the search platform over time, in a similar way that Wikipedia took time to get enough entries to be useful.The search project is part of Wales&#39; for-profit company, Wikia Inc., which offers a software platform that anyone can use to build wikis. In a similar way,&#160;the Wikia Project will allow other people to build their own search engines.Wikia Inc. was started in 2004 and has received investment money from Amazon.com and Bessemer Venture Partners.&#160;
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Wikipedia is not a search engine, and links from Wikipedia no longer count towards increasing your link equity Ã¢ÂÂ but there are still plenty of reasons to pay attention to Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales discusses encyclopedias, Microsoft and the next big thing(s) on the Internet.
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Software giant eyes search pioneer to bolster its competition with Google.
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Powerset, an ambitious start-up  that aims to let people search the Web using conversational  speech instead of just keywords, began opening up its site on  Monday for public testing of the technology.