[Grub-dev] [Search-l] Short interview with Jeremie Miller

[jer]

I'm not really sure who wrote what parts of the text below but it  
doesn't matter, there's some deeper history and context here that I  
don't have and will continue to ignore.  These angles be made to  
sound as highbrow as you want but I still find this rather immature  
and unhelpful.

To make this damn clear, I'm not here to build another search engine,  
I'm here to make sure that everyone else can.  This isn't about one  
company or one person, it's just about making the tools and services  
for search more open and accessible to *everybody*.

Jer

On Sep 27, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Jason Calacanis wrote:

> Some interesting feedback from Seth below... interested to hear the  
> answers to these questions.
>
> best j
> ------------------
> Jason McCabe Calacanis
> CEO, http://www.Mahalo.com
>
>
> "Wikia Search" interview and state of Wikipedia-model search project
>
> There's a brief interview with Jeremie Millier about the current  
> status of what he's doing for "Wikia search", which is the for- 
> profit Wikipedia-model search project.
>
> I'd submitted a few suggested questions for this interview, but  
> they were all rejected. I had wanted to know:
>
>     1) Roughly, how many people will be *paid* on the project?
>
>     1b) Can you specify whether at developed vs. developing economy  
> pay scales?
>
>     2) Do you plan to hire anyone with search engine development  
> expertise?
>
>     3) Do you think there's a cultural conflict between Wikipedia's  
> model of operating, where in theory nobody owns any articles, and  
> code development, where typically specific people "own" various  
> subsystems? Which path do you plan to try to follow?
>
> Note understanding 1b) requires some context. It was based on how  
> the company Wikia had decided to offshore programmers - to Poland!  
> That's definitely not something that's talked about a lot.
>
>     "Wales said he settled on Poland in part because software  
> engineers there are simultaneously highly skilled and affordable, a  
> combination that he said is hard to find, even elsewhere in Eastern  
> Europe."
>
> [Keep in mind, all you US programmers who are tempted to fall for  
> the marketing, you're not affordable - everyone thinks it's going  
> to be the other guy who works for free.]
>
> Anyway, even though the interview only covers technical topics,  
> it's still worth a read if you're interested in some details of  
> what's behind the hype the audience is being fed.
>
> For summary, given my position above, I'll just quote John  
> McCormac's list-comment
>
>     Interesting interview. I didn't realise that Grub was quite  
> that bad.
>
>     ...
>
>     On the search side, the Wikiasearch project (if we can call it  
> that) doesn't seem to be doing anything beyond what hundreds of  
> small search startups are doing. The management, bundling and  
> repackaging aspects is, so far, perhaps the only innovative angles.
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