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

[jer]

>> 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.

There isn't "a" plan at all, there's lots of ideas and projects, and  
many more to come.

> 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.

I'm sorry, did you stub your toe on a newsstand?  Did your newsreader  
fill up and crash?  I didn't realize hopes and dreams and journalism  
was so offensive to people.

> Please don't waste our time

Free will is a beautiful thing :)

> with pious platitudes -

Pious, sure, there's something spiritual about believing that Search  
is a deep part of our collective future and that it needs a serious  
open foundation behind it.

Platitudes?  Only time will tell.  I expect our work here to only  
really be making a difference by the time my oldest son graduates  
from high school, he's going in to 8th grade this fall.


> provide some answers or at least contribute.

Do you have a specific question?   I'm doing my best to contribute,  
it just may not be to your satisfaction as it's not in practical  
forms (yet).

Jer