Wikia - a brand new concept of search engine

Posted on December 27th, 2006.

This project of new search engine has the codename Wikiasari, a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for “rummaging search”.

Mr Wales, the founder of Wikipedia is the man behind this project, said to The Times that Wikia will be launched in the first Quarter of next year.

According to Mr Wales, Google has many flaws in their search engine technology because it is too computer based.

“Google is very good at many types of search, but in many instances it produces nothing but spam and useless crap. Try searching for the term ‘Tampa hotels’, for example, and you will not get any useful results,” he said.

“Essentially, if you consider one of the basic tasks of a search engine, it is to make a decision: ‘this page is good, this page sucks’,” Mr Wales said. “Computers are notoriously bad at making such judgments, so algorithmic search has to go about it in a roundabout way.

“But we have a really great method for doing that ourselves,” he added. “We just look at the page. It usually only takes a second to figure out if the page is good, so the key here is building a community of trust that can do that.”

The question is, can Wikia catch up with other established search engines like Google, Yahoo!, or Live? What do you think?

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