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

[John McCormac]

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> The way I look at it is that people will want to be able to work on 
> shaping the results from their own local perspective.  (And ideally, 
> "local" can mean more than just language and geography, but those two 
> are quite important.)

Which is why the micro-searchengine approach might work better than a 
global one. It would make the search indices easier to edit.

> But it is about "shaping" not "excluding".

That gets back to the philosophy of a search engine being relevant to a 
locale or whether it contains sites from that locale. In order to make 
it inclusive, it would require a complete crawl of the web. However most 
small sub Tier 2 (below country level) don't have the resources to do 
such a crawl and they generally don't have the processing backend or 
human resources to deal with the data. This is where the social aspect 
of Wikia could work well. However shifting terrabytes of data around can 
be expensive.

Regards...jmcc
-- 
******************************************************
John McCormac  *  e-mail: jmcc at whoisireland.com
MC2            *  voice:  +353-51-873640
22 Viewmount   *  web:  http://www.whoisireland.com/
Waterford      *  blog: http://blog.whoisireland.com
Ireland        *  Irish Domain Stats & Market Research
******************************************************