Crossposted to wikia-l and search-l. I just posted this to the Wikia Search blog at http://search.wikia.com/blog/2008/08/06/introducing-wikia-evolution/ and I hope members of both lists will download our new toolbar, Wikia Evolution, and shoot back feedback! You can download it and learn more Wikia Evolution at http://re.search.wikia.com/toolbar/download.html
The text of the blog post is below; the images and links are stripped. Thanks, Dan *** One of our core values at Wikia Search is Community. We want everyone to be able to participate in the Wikia Search project. That's why we are proud to introduce Wikia Evolution, our new Firefox toolbar. You can download it here, or via Mozilla's Firefox Add-On Library. The mission of Wikia Evolution: To empower users to interact with search. We want to make it dead-simple for you to add URLs into our index under appropriate keywords. Already, we're the cutting edge when it comes to incorporating user feedback into our search results, so much so that Google is experimenting with eerily similar features. Wikia Evolution pushes the envelope even further. It allows you to quickly and easily add the web page you are on into Wikia Search, directly from your browser, for whatever keyword is appropriate. Instant indexing! Then, you can modify the search result to make it really killer, all without leaving the page you're on. Letting everyone modify search results pages is of fundamental importance — but you can't on either Google or Yahoo. We can't change that, sadly, but Wikia Evolution does the next best thing. Using Wikia Evolution, you can add and rate URLs directly from Google or Yahoo, and those contributions will be immediately incorporated into Wikia Search. Jimmy left a comment on the Mozilla download page, and I think it bears repeating: "This toolbar, like everything we are doing at Wikia Search, is open source. We hope that if you are a toolbar fan and programmer, you will let us know what features need to be added and/or take this and do something surprising and cool with it." Community: Let's make it happen, together. _______________________________________________ Wikia-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l
