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

[John McCormac]

Aerik Sylvan wrote:
> 
> 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.

User submissions are fine if the search engine has sufficient 
marketshare. If it does not, and it does not have an active website 
discovery/crawl aspect, it will not do well against the likes of 
Google/Yahoo/Microsoft. This reliance on user submissions is what 
generally kills off a lot of search engines and web directories.

>     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

Perhaps Wikia wants us to Open Source our knowledge, expertise and time 
for its benefit? :)

Regards...jmcc
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