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

[jer]

> 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.

I want to start a new large discussion about this almost exactly, but  
all I need is yet another thread to follow :)

It's important though, I think I'm going to pester Jimmy to kick- 
start this "social" framework discussion this week.

Jer