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.
