Wikipedia to launch human search engine
Wales describes the search engine giants’ results as “editorial” – whether automated or not.
“People think of search as some kind of computer function but it’s really editorial – it’s journalism. If I type ‘Martha Stewart’ into a search engine and I get 10 results back, those results are an editorial judgment whether or not it’s made by a computer.”
From that perspective, Wales believe it is a concern “when we have only two or three sources for that editorial judgment.”
Unlike Wikipedia, Wikia Search will be for-profit. So the motivations of Wikia’s contributors could be different from the hundreds of ‘uninterested’ workers who edit the online encyclopedia. It’s also unclear how the human-powered search engine will provide efficient results – different from their relevance.
According to Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, a trade website, crowd-powered search engines won’t beat Google. “Wikipedia is a destination site. Search isn’t a destination,” he said.
Source: The Sunday Times
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