Wikia Foundation enters searching
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🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
<p>While most search firms privately and secretly tweak their complex search algorithms to hone the accuracy of results, some are irritated at the privacy. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, plans to change all that with the public debut of their <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080102/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_wiki_search">new search engine</a> next week.</p>
<p>Based on the same principles as Wikipedia, namely that anyone can provide input on a result, the search algorithms for the Wikia search engine will be honed by crowdsourced contributors. When asked about the private approach, Jimmy wales noted:</p>
<blockquote>That reduces the sort of bottleneck of two or three firms really controlling the flow of search traffic</blockquote>
<p>Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go link every cell phone manufacturer's result to the bananaphone.</p>
<p>Based on the same principles as Wikipedia, namely that anyone can provide input on a result, the search algorithms for the Wikia search engine will be honed by crowdsourced contributors. When asked about the private approach, Jimmy wales noted:</p>
<blockquote>That reduces the sort of bottleneck of two or three firms really controlling the flow of search traffic</blockquote>
<p>Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go link every cell phone manufacturer's result to the bananaphone.</p>
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