Wikia search engine alpha online
p2pnet news | P2P:-The alpha release of the Wikia search engine, meant to “to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine,” is now online.
Try it and you probably won’t be overly impressed but, “We are aware that the quality of the search results is low,” says the site’s About section, going on
Wikia’s search engine concept is that of trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way. Of course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results are pretty bad. But we expect them to improve rapidly in coming weeks, so please bookmark the site and return often.
Right now, the most important thing you can do is help with the “miniarticles” that appear at the top of popular search terms. These will vary in purpose according to the circumstance, but the primary uses will be:
Short definitions
Disambiguations
Photos
At the bottom of every page is a linke to “Post bug reports here”… please use that link liberally to give us large amounts of feedback.
There’s a quote at the bottom from Wikipedia founder Jimmmy Wales.
It says:
“I believe that search is a fundamental part of the infrastructure of the Internet, and that it can and should therefore be done in an open, objective, accountable way. This site, which we have been working on for a long time now, represents the first draft of the future of search.
“Please feel free to join us, make some friends, and let’s try to do something friendly, interesting, and different. w.”
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