[Search-l] What Is Wikia and How Real Is It?

[Aerik Sylvan]

On 8/6/07, John McCormac <jmcc at hackwatch.com> wrote:
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> The search index is the hard part. It takes a long time to develop a
> good, clean index. The Infinite Monkeys approach to building an index
> (following links and hoping that they will lead to new pages) is not the
> most efficient method of building an index quickly when any of the prior
> requirements are absent or deficient.


I've been thinking for some time that *one* interesting avenue is to
*invite* submissions to discover new links.  Everybody wants to be in
Google's index, so they bend over backwards to get indexed and rank well.
In a community powered search engine, why not just index sites people
submit?  Of course, you'd have to spider a little bit - the whole domain, or
everything below a certain directory level - but this is not the same as the
infinite monkeys thing.

Perhaps the question foremost in the minds of many of the SE people on
> this list is this: why should be provide the search expertise? Or, to
> put it less diplomatically, why should we make you rich?


Yeah... I think a lot of people are looking at Wikia that way.  I wonder
what it would be like if it was non-for-profit

Best Regards,
Aerik


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