Wikipedia to launch user-improvable search engine
Posted by Jean Yves Chainon on January 2, 2007 at 12:23 PM
Wikipedia is to launch a major new search engine. The search engine is meant to incorporate human participation to improve search results.
Search results will be user-editable, in order to improve the engine’s efficiency and accuracy.
Additional information has remained vague and led to some misinformation – such as the name of the search engine or the alleged partnership with Amazon for the project.
Details are available on Jimmy Wale’s – founder of Wikipedia – website, Search Wikia.
In the meantime, Germany recently announced it was abandoning a joint project with France to create a European search engine that could compete with American giants Google and Yahoo.
"The French wanted a search engine. We wanted something else," said a German economics and technology ministry spokeswoman.
Germany is instead working on Theseus, an “information and technology service.” France will supposedly continue to develop its search engine, Quaero – “I search” in Latin.
Source: Poynter.org – Guardian
Additional information has remained vague and led to some misinformation – such as the name of the search engine or the alleged partnership with Amazon for the project.
Details are available on Jimmy Wale’s – founder of Wikipedia – website, Search Wikia.
In the meantime, Germany recently announced it was abandoning a joint project with France to create a European search engine that could compete with American giants Google and Yahoo.
"The French wanted a search engine. We wanted something else," said a German economics and technology ministry spokeswoman.
Germany is instead working on Theseus, an “information and technology service.” France will supposedly continue to develop its search engine, Quaero – “I search” in Latin.
Source: Poynter.org – Guardian
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