US: WISE hits market, challenge to SearchMonkey
Posted by Katherine Thompson on October 9, 2008 at 8:45 AM
A new initiative is being taken up by The Washington Post, Thomson Reuters, Digg, Twitter, Last.FM, Amie Street, amongst others. The newly launched WISE (Wikia Intelligent Search Extensions), from the people behind Wikia Search, is a platform that allows the creation of applications and customization of search results. An application created is called a WISEapp.
There is already a similar product in the market, SearchMonkey, from Yahoo!, however, this is still in closed beta testing. Could the newly launched WISE steal a march on SearchMonkey?
The man behind the project is called Jimmy Wales, who has a reputation for bringing his products to the market quickly. However, this rush to market plan did backfire in the case of Wiki Search, as the product came in for some stingingly negative reviews in its early days.
Source: EJC Media and Mashable
There is already a similar product in the market, SearchMonkey, from Yahoo!, however, this is still in closed beta testing. Could the newly launched WISE steal a march on SearchMonkey? The man behind the project is called Jimmy Wales, who has a reputation for bringing his products to the market quickly. However, this rush to market plan did backfire in the case of Wiki Search, as the product came in for some stingingly negative reviews in its early days.
Source: EJC Media and Mashable
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