Wikia Search Project to Launch Jan. 7, Wales says
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New year will see launch of open-source Wikipedia search project the company hopes will challenge Google, others.
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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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Jimmy Wales' Wikia Search will open to the public next week with an eye toward improving search by letting users tweak search results in a fashion similar to how users edit entries on Wikipedia.
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Jimmy Wales, cofounder of Wikia, launched a new project to address what he says are the shortcomings of current search engines. But one analyst said he isn't so sure Wales' efforts do much to improve the current model.
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A new project called Digital Universe aims to make information on the Web better organized and more authoritative
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An inquiry into child safety on the internet is likely to look at several suicides by young people in south Wales.
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VA Software in March 2005 plans to add Wiki integration to its SourceForge Enterprise Edition environment for collaborative application development, with the goal of providing more structure to Wikis.
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Wired News readers are getting a chance to shape the news: For an article about wiki collaboration software, anyone may contribute using, what else?, a wiki.
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SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. plans to officially launch its updated and renamed Internet search engine today, the latest step in a massive effort to make headway against market leaders Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc.
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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.
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Criticizing Google and Yahoo as not transparent enough, Jimmy Wales plans an open-source search project that allows more user input.
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New York - Microsoft Corp will roll out its long-awaited internet search service on Thursday, adding fresh competition to Google Inc, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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THE success of a survival guide for Londoners aimed at making life easy has led to calls for a similar version for Wales.
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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.
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Web search leader Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) said late on Monday it is working on a project to digitally scan the collections at seven libraries and will make
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Spirits expert launches a Wikipedia-inspired resource for scotch, bourbon, and all the other caramel-colored stuff that leaves your head aching.
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, said a controversy over the faked credentials of "essjay" -- an editor of the online encyclopedia's who faked his credentials -- likely means other editors will soon need to prove their own qualifications.