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Re: Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google?

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Re: Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google?

Saumil Mehta — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:27:42 -0000

Thanks for your thoughts, Kevin.

Chandra,

The issue is not simply whether any user generated content makes a difference. The issue is whether giving up control over the *first* result to unregistered users will improve quality for a large swath of queries over the long run.

Yes, the web is growing fast, but you would hope that the algorithmically generated results would have that covered (they dont yet for Search Wikia, unfortunately).

Re: Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google?

Dini — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:56:05 -0000

Thanks Saumil for the thorough review of Search Wikia!Very resourceful!

Re: Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google?

Chandra — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:20:55 -0000

I really don't think that user generated search results make any impact, as the web pages are growing in number so quickly. Google is simply excellent.

Chandra

Re: Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google?

Kevin Heisler — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:53:34 -0000

Great review, Saumil. Excellent analysis and reporting.

Wikia Search is the first true social search engine. That Google ran a similar concept thru the Labs says a great deal about the potential of social search engines, like Facebook and LinkedIn.

Re: Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google?

Jim Brower — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 04:30:14 -0000

If Wikia really wants to make this a community-generated search engine than the demo attached will do just that - http://tinyurl.com/yvah8w

PredictAd Search Assist has a collaborative filtering feature that learns community search patterns. If you start typing in the demo attached you will start getting autocomplete results (with contextual advertisements) - these results will optimize based on the popularity of certain search terms/phrases.

If Jimmy Wales is reading - take a close look…PredictAd is FREE and its contextual advertising platform gives the publisher something that Adwords simply doesn’t! Moreover, it’s the first Ajax service offered on the web, and it’s a cool one at that…

Re: Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google?

Baher — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:20:37 -0000

Sorry, I meant Thanks Saumil.

Re: Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google?

Baher — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 03:19:03 -0000

Thanks Kevin for the comprehensive article and insight from Jimmy, your post is the best one on Wikia so far.

Re: Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google?

Don Jones — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:35:04 -0000

It seems that any online search system can be gamed to one degree or another - the question is where are the vulnerabilities?