[Search-l] Simpy Chichimichi - "Wikia Search - Not Happening"

[Seth Finkelstein]

http://blog.simpy.com/blojsom/blog/2007/04/23/Wikia-Search-Not-Happening.html

Monday, 23 April 2007
Wikia Search - Not Happening

A few months back, there was a lot of talk about Jimmy Wales' new idea
- the Wikia Search. The idea behind this search engine is/was that it
would (somehow) be "community-driven" (vague - what exactly does that
mean?). I believe the other part of the idea is that the search engine
software to run this engine would be best on Nutch and Lucene
(something I know a little about, and provide consulting services).

Lots of talk, but as far as I can tell, nothing came out of it
yet. There is a (now pretty inactive) mailing list that never included
more than very high-level and unorganized discussion (check archives
from March, February, and January for examples). As Simpy's dad, I
also emailed Jimmy and offered help. I never heard back from
Jimmy. Busy man, I'm sure. However, everything I've seen so far makes
me think the Wikia Search is either not going to happen any time soon,
or maybe not at all. Does anyone have any more information about it? 


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