Wikia Search Engine Goes Live Today
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Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut today.
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Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google - Paid inclusion? - Gbrowser - The Google Browser - Directory - Linkfarm, Where Exactly Is the Difference? - How Fair Is the Link Popularity Algorithm? - Ask Jeeves & Citysearch Partnership Goes Live - Pay Per Click Shopping Sites - Microsoft Using Doorway Pages
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The project will allow technology enthusiasts to help filter sites and rank search results, using a community model akin to that of Wikipedia.
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A new version of WikyBlog was released today with new support for content includes and 304 responses. WikyBlog is a scalable CMS/Groupware application with an AJAX enhanced tabbed interface enabling users to view/edit multiple files within the same page.    Additionally, this release includes a complete Turkish translation, a few database modifications,  a google maps bug fix and sidebar search bug fix.  WikyBlog Home:   http://www.wikyblog.com     Get WikyBlog:   http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wikyblog/WikyBlog-1.3.zip?download     WikyBlog Features:   http://www.wikyblog.com/Help/en/WikyBlog/Features
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Wikia Inc, the commercial arm of the nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia, announced yesterday the opening of a new free service for hosting any community-sponsored content, such as blogs, social networking or other Web 2.0-like content that promotes interaction.
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Microsoft Corp.âs proprietary new search engine is scheduled to go live today in a beta version, at beta.search.msn.com. Like its rival, Google.
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Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Launches Search for Scholars - Adwords to Ban Affiliates? - MSN's 'Near Me' Search Button - The Difference In Traffic for #1 and #10? - Robots.txt & Security Issues - One year anniversary of the 'Florida' Update - What is the Future of the 'Niche Directory'
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Ask.com's search engine is sharpening its focus on local results in an attempt to make a bigger splash on the World Wide Web.
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JAMWiki is a Wiki engine implemented using Java/JSP that attempts to provide much of the functionality of MediaWiki. It can be run with or without a database and is designed to be fast and easy to set up. Please visit jamwiki.org for further details.   JAMWiki 0.6.3 (code name "Foodscapes") is now available for download. The 0.6.3 release is a minor release that includes several enhancements and minor fixes. Notable changes made during this release include:      * New translations for Portugese and Galician, contributed by mmeixide.     * Fixes for several CSS issues, including a problem that caused diffs to be invisible when using IE6.     * Fixes for a problem with virtual wikis that occasionally resulted in a redirect to the "en" virtual wiki.     * Updates to support systems using IPv6.   See the README.txt and CHANGELOG.txt files included in the JAMWiki distribution for additional details about this release. Users are also encouraged to visit http://jamwiki.org/ for more detailed documentation, to report any problems, or to contribute to the project.
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Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: New Yahoo Bidding Information - Internet Advertisers Want Sales Not Branding - Strategy Needed for New International Site - Yahoo Integrates Answers Into Search Results, and more.
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Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: What Is Social Search? - Keeping Track of Links - Virtual Servers and Subdomains for SEO - Advertising With Ask - How Much to Charge for PPC Work? and more.
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Redmond unveils its much-hyped search engine. Does the world change?
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(InfoWorld) - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is targeting the fourth quarter of this year for the unveiling of an open-source search engine that he hopes could challenge the dominance of market-leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. The project is being run through Wikia Inc., a for-profit company founded by Wales that seeks to use a similar model to the Wikipedia community-written and edited encyclopedia. He hopes to provide the tools and technology to allow programmers across the Internet to collaborate on the development and testing of a search engine and make the results freely available. "The essential core principles are that I think search is now a fundamental part of the infrastructure of the Internet and it's really fundamental to society as a whole and therefore as citizens of the world we should be concerned about it being a secretive black box," he said. Efforts to create open search engines aren't new but one of the stumbling blocks they face is a difficulty in running large-scale tests of the search algorithm, said Wales. The algorithm is the code that sits at the heart of the search engine and is responsible for its accuracy or lack thereof. "To create a full-scale crawling spider of the Web actually requires a great deal of investment in hardware," he said. Wikia is planning to provide resources to enable full-scale crawling of the World Wide Web so the software can be fully tested and tuned. The project is still in the planning stages and Wales expects that the first test version due this year will help programmers spot bugs that occur with real-world usage and speed up the development process. "Probably what we'll do is launch something in the fourth quarter of this year with a really big warning 'It sucks, we know it sucks, it's experimental, don't panic. This is just an experiment to show what could be and now we're going to start working to see how we could make it better'," he said. Already the project is attracting attention, not just from engineers who want to lend a hand but from companies that are already offering search engines. "We are getting a lot of interest from second-tier search players who are really interested in some of the alternatives that might be available. If you're not one of the top three or four you've got to really wonder how could you ever catch up with Google and their billions of dollars. This provides kind of a level playing field where lots of people can contribute," said Wales. Wales cites a story he heard about research done on search results. In the study users were presented with results from Google and Yahoo but with the brand names switched, so the Google name was above the Yahoo results and vice versa. In most cases users picked the Google-branded results as better, he said. "To me this shows a great vulnerability if Google is only competing on brand image," said Wales. "If good quality search results are becoming a commodity, if the problem of search is in some sense solved then if I can make that free it really changes the structure of competition on the Internet." "We'll give away all the technology, all the data. Release everything under a free license because in my view the idea has been very solidly proven wrong by Wikipedia that in order to out-compete on the Internet you need to have a walled garden of special content no one else has. Wikipedia gives everything away. You can download the database and put up a clone of Wikipedia tomorrow. All that means is that more people find out about the brand, more people drive traffic back," he said. Even if multiple competitors spring up using the Wikia search engine he's hopeful the Wikia site can still grab a 2 percent or 3 percent share of the search market and so would become "a pretty decent little business." But just how successful the search engine is will depend on more than just its accuracy. The search algorithm is the most closely guarded secret of companies like Google because it determines how high a particular site is ranked. If the algorithm is public then it would mean site owners could precisely tune their sites for high rankings and that's sure to attract the attention of spammers. Wales hopes a community effort will result in a black list of abusers to keep the results clean. "If published algorithms make it too easy for spammers to game the system then we've got a real problem and my whole idea won't work," he said.
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The founder of online encyclopaedia Wikipedia launches a service offering free tools for community websites.
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The world's most popular search engine has launched a new tool to improve access to academic publications.
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Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Hack Your Competition Out of Organic Search - MSN And Yahoo Join Google With Sitemaps - How Local Search And SEM Relates - What to Look for When Purchasing Links? - What Tools Does An SEO Guru Use? and more.
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Why are there no fewer than 500 different Wiki implementations?  MoinMoin, Jot, JSPWiki, InterWiki, MediaWiki, SocialText, Twiki, Team Notepad, PhpWiki, WikiDoc, Project Forum, xWiki, AspWiki, SnipSnap, AsWiki, eGroupware Wiki, Hiki, MiniWiki, MyWiki, ParseWiki, PHP Groupware Wiki, Trac, Usemod Wiki, Wiliki, Zope zWiki... I'm sure I could go on...  Aren't most of these Open Source?  Can't some of these projects merge?  For god sake *stop it*!  The world doesn't need another wiki applications.  None of these are getting links because they don't deserve the PageRank.  Did I miss anyone?  If I did please add a comment.