Personally I suspect a sheep in wolves clothing. I see this as another move intended to monetize. Nothing wrong with that, unless everyone believes what they're doing isn't for that purpose.
Enis Soztutar wrote: > Sean Dean wrote: >> Ive been following it, but haven't posted anything over there. >> Honestly, if you read a lot of the "public" content in the forum and >> mailing list it provides you with absolutely nothing in terms of what >> they will be doing. >> >> Jimmy Wales is still running 100% of the show, and every now and then >> you see some article with him boosting his "idea". I haven't seen any >> power or "commands" given to the general (unorganized) community. >> >> They might turn out to surprise me, but so far its been ALL public >> relations. I manage a search engine based on Nutch and Lucene and its >> still bigger then there's, too bad I cant wheel and deal the same PR >> monkey's. >> >> >> My search engine is more proof of concept (and a hobby) then anything >> else, but maybe one day it will generate more then the $20 per month >> in Google Ad revenue it does now. A free tip for budding search >> engine creators; go vertical or go home.* >> >> * home = http://www.google.com/ >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Dennis Kubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 1:37:02 AM >> Subject: Wikia Search Engine? Anyone working on it? >> >> >> Just a curiosity. I saw the new article about the Wikia search >> engine in Fast Company magazine. Is anybody here working with that >> project or planning on working with it? >> >> Personally I am working on a separate search project but I keep >> seeing that they are going to use Nutch and Lucene. I haven't really >> seen anybody that has been active on the lists say they are going to >> be involved in the project though? What is everyone's interest level >> on this? >> >> Dennis Kubes >> > I also follow the list with no posts. As far as i can tell, the > search-i mailing list is not *that* active for such a community. The > list seems to used for idea and link exchange. Since nutch is a > possible solution for wikia search maybe we should be more active in > the project. Also I believe there are some people in the nutch > community who has precious hands-on xp with an online search engine. > And i encourage them to take part in wikia search. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nutch-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nutch-general
