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

[John McCormac]

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

So there isn't "a" plan then. Is there even a strategy?

> 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.

No. I was building a search index and cleaning out rubbish from it - 
real search engine work.

Bad journalism is offensive. It doesn't illuminate the reader and blurs 
the line between journalism and the public relations industry. 
Journalism has to ask the questions that the people want to ask and it 
has to get the answers. But that's another argument.

> 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.

A bit of dot.bomb dejavue. Search is a business. Those who don't 
approach it as such end up getting devoured by it. That's why Google, 
Yahoo and Microsoft dominate the market. They don't blindly hope that 
things will happen. They make them happen.

> 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).

For the list:

What projects exist?

What resources exist?

What assets exist?

What is the collective knowledge in Wikia that is available to developers?

What is available to developers?

Regards...jmcc
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