Wikiasari - future competitor of Google?

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    Jimmy Wales, the creator of Wikipedia, plans to introduce a Wikiasari search engine next year , which he said will compete with Google’s search leader .

    Wikiasari search results will be based on the information that users provide - just like the world famous Wikipedia is built. The name of the project is derived from two words: wiki (“fast” in Hawaiian) and asari (“thorough search” in Japanese). The approximate launch date for the new service is the first quarter of 2007, Times Online reports .

    The search engine is created in the "bowels" of the company Wikia , which, as you know, recently received investment from Amazon. However, Jimmy Wales rejected the suggestion that Wikiasari is being developed in collaboration with a new investor.

    The head of Wikia is confident in the success of his endeavor. Speaking about the main competitor - Google, he notes that spammers actually manipulate the "main search engine", as a result of which it is sometimes impossible for users to get the correct answer to their request. A search engine based on the “mind of a machine”, according to Jimmy Wales, cannot meet the needs of users. Therefore, he suggests using the proven wiki technology that underlies Wikipedia.

    “One of the main tasks of a search engine is to make a decision: this site is good, and this one is crap,” Wales explains the basics of search technologies. “Computers cannot make such decisions. But we ourselves can do it perfectly: we just need to look at the site. ”

    Jimmy Wales believes that the reputation of Wikipedia, the transparency of its technology will attract users to Wikiasari - and create a community around the new search engine that will make it as popular as the world-famous online encyclopedia.

    Techcrunch Blog Anonymous Reveals Some Project Details. In particular, it is known that until recently it was called WikiSearch. The first three links in Wikiasari search results will lead to Wikipedia pages. The search engine is being developed as open-source and will be available under GFDL . Despite the fact that Jimmy Wales talks about Wikipedia as an example for Wikiasari, the search engine will advertise, i.e. it will be aimed at commercial success (not surprising given that Wikia will own the search engine).

    The search results for Wikiasari will look, according to unconfirmed reports, like this:

    Wikiasari

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