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**paul** · #1 (**permalink**) 12-03-2007, 09:34

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales, reveals their plans for a new editable search engine located at insidebayarea.com/business/ci_5406665 . They say that the goal of the project is to get 5% of the search market. However there is no official release date yet has been announced.

**Jack** · #2 (**permalink**) 12-03-2007, 10:33

Well it was scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2007 but not got any further news. I am waiting for it. Interesting to see with what algorithms it comes. IMO, It cant compete with Google because there are maximum users who trust Google only. Lets see..

**Ben** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-03-2007, 13:44

Hmm, well I have never heard about this. I think they would grow in the search market if they included accurate results, for instance if you searched for "Clothing" it would give resilts according to their keywords. Can't wait to see it launch.

**paul** · #4 (**permalink**) 13-03-2007, 13:57

Yep, this could be good move since Wikipedia now adds the â€œnofollowâ€ attribute to all external links and getting heavy critic on this.

**narutorasengan16** · #5 (**permalink**) 19-03-2007, 04:51

im getting the idea, but what is meant by editable search engine?

and if its editable what can u edit in it?

if u get more info please post it here, cuzz im interested

**paul** · #6 (**permalink**) 19-03-2007, 09:06

naruto, so far they have announced this; "Wiki users will collaborate to build an index of Web website hostings that anyone can edit. They also will be able to fix search results if they don't give useful information" I guess you have missed this link there: insidebayarea.com/business/ci_5406665

**Eidolon** · #7 (**permalink**) 19-03-2007, 09:32

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Originally Posted by narutorasengan16

im getting the idea, but what is meant by editable search engine?

and if its editable what can u edit in it?

if u get more info please post it here, cuzz im interested

Sounds like it'll be great for spammers and arguments between webmasters.

**paul** · #8 (**permalink**) 19-03-2007, 14:53

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

Sounds like it'll be great for spammers and arguments between webmasters.

I think wikipedia want some share from search engine market, they might have some strategy and obviously they need to keep their algorithms secret otherwise it would be just useless.

**Dave White** · #9 (**permalink**) 19-03-2007, 17:23

That's smashing!!!
But I wonder how long such a concept would last as there are loads of spammers waiting for such open invitations.
Based on their previous experience, I hope WIKI's will come up with some better techniques.

**paul** · #10 (**permalink**) 20-03-2007, 09:58

I guess that might be somewhat based on this; wikiwax.com

**narutorasengan16** · #11 (**permalink**) 21-03-2007, 01:35

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Originally Posted by paul

I guess that might be somewhat based on this; http://www.wikiwax.com/

thats pretty nice, but that basically shows only things from wikipedia and not from all over the net, basicaly an easier way to search wiki i guess, lol

**paul** · #12 (**permalink**) 21-03-2007, 11:56

Yea but that can be doable to fetch all information from the net.

**narutorasengan16** · #13 (**permalink**) 21-03-2007, 20:36

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Originally Posted by paul

Yea but that can be doable to fetch all information from the net.

i see, thats true, but only wiki has control of that, but i hope they do expand it so its for the whole net, how well will they fair up against google though....

**Gracia** · #14 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 12:04

Yes, seems to be a interesting news...