Newly Unveiled Wikia Search Leaves Much to Be Desired
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The first public preview of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' new open-source search engine launched Monday. Even though the project is very young, it currently lacks many of the human-powered ranking and rating features that will enable it to emerge as a threat to current search leaders like Google.
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One of the major issues plaguing search engines right now is the growing list of web documents available online. While no exact numbers are available, there are billions of search results to sort through. But, they can&#8217;t all be relevant both on material content and time &#8212; can they?  Of course they&#8217;re not, and Google [...]
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In the wacky Wiki world that is the Internet, it's hard to know which information is reliable and which isn't.
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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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DevShed continues their series looking at connecting a PHP5 script to the powerful Yahoo! search backend with part four of the series today. This part focuses on reworking some of the previous examples to make them more modular using custom defined functions.   Logically, these examples can be really useful for learning the basic concepts surrounding the use of these search services, but undoubtedly, it's necessary to modify and improve their source code to make it more compact and completely reusable.   They start the overhaul with the web search (complete with example results) then push on to the video and image searches and work them over the same way.
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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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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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What's new in search? Found in the forums: Content on an E-commerce Site; Implications of CSS Layouts on SEO; First Year at SES NY; and more.
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An open-source search engine from Wikipedia creator is planned for launch at the end of the year.
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New Scholar service promises next level of search engines.
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Answers.com has completed the first stage of integrating content into WikiAnswers, a Wiki Q&#038;A service. The content on WikiAnswers is an ongoing collaboration of shared knowledge, using the &#8220;wiki&#8221; methodology best known for its use on Wikipedia (where a great deal of Answers.com content originates from). Answers.com says that the quality of the Q&#038;A WikiAnswers is [...]
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"As part of the Jakarta Commons Feed Parser, I have created a Wiki page that details autodiscovery support/non-support, syndication formats, and the common locations of all syndication files across all of the major blogging services:"  Brad created  a great "Hall of Shame" for blog services which don't use autodiscovery or have problems with feed subscription.  Shame. Shame. Shame!
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Introducing The 404s, Wired's contest to find the least-informative sites on the military web. Strike a blow for open government (and win prizes).  In Danger Room.
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An online spirits expert launches a Wikipedia-inspired resource for scotch, bourbon, and all that other caramel-colored stuff that gives you headaches.
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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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Aaron Wall at SEObook has put together a thought provoking post on current linking techniques, structure, and how Google reliance on trusted sources &#038; domains is in jeopardy as those resouces become more and more abused. Finding the Most Powerful Links Anything that has been greatly trusted has been abused. The difference between the current abuse and [...]
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Ask.com is the newest search engine to dish up new features.