[Search-l] Wikia - Global focus or country level search?

[John McCormac]

jer wrote:
> Hope?  That's what *excites* me!  This isn't your average search  engine 
> and traditional design with all the expected hard data that  everyone 
> else crunches every day.  This is something new, something  radical, 
> something unknown.  Hope and passion is what drives me every  day to 
> think about how to do this better, more openly, to make this  effort the 
> foundation of an entirely new and different search platform.

... meanwhile back in the real world, time passes.

> This is not about hard data, I'm sorry if you're expecting to be able  
> to relate this to something you know, it can't be.  This is  absolutely 
> about hope and dreams.

Search is about turning hard data into information that people can use. 
Forgive me if this sounds a bit cynical but it has been a long day. 
Right now, I think that the Wikia people might have been hitting the 
koolaid a bit too hard. From the whole "user" angle to this happy-clappy 
nonsense, it doesn't seem like Wikia has much of a plan.

We in the real world of search deal in data and distilling it into 
information that people can use. We can't afford your vaporware hopes 
and dreams because we haven't venture capital to rely upon. So while 
Wikia might be able to flit around giving soundbites to gullible 
journalists, we have to build search engines and deal with reality. 
Please don't waste our time with pious platitudes - provide some answers 
or at least contribute.

Regards...jmcc
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