[Search-l] Wikia Press Release on search project

[Seth Finkelstein]

[Disclaimer - I'm only reposting this.]

http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/5/emw523078.htm

Jabber Founder Jeremie Miller Joins Forces with Jimmy Wales to Build
Open Search Platform

Miller to spearhead development of a new search platform combining
human intelligence with open protocols.

San Mateo, Calif. (PRWEB) May 1, 2007 -- Wikia, Inc. (www.wikia.com)
the leading provider of community resources for building and
organizing free content on every topic, today announced that Jabber
founder Jeremie Miller has joined forces with Wikia founder Jimmy
Wales to collaborate on building a new search platform founded on
open-source search protocols and human collaboration.

Miller is widely recognized as the inventor of Jabber, an open instant
messaging community and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
(XMPP), which is an open protocol that allows instant messaging
platforms to interoperate and users to communicate freely and safely.
Building on the same principles, Miller hopes to combine the
transparency and power of an open protocol with the efficacy of a
user-editable search experience.

"The Internet and Web are founded on completely open principles, I've
championed this philosophy for instant messaging and believe that the
awesome power of search should be based on the same fundamental
rules," said Jeremie Miller. "The power of a simple protocol is that
it enables networks of resources to collaborate openly, to be
constructive instead of competitive. I'm eager to work with Jimmy and
empower everyone in the search industry with a transparent
collaborative open protocol, from researchers, to developers, vertical
search startups, and most importantly, end users."

The conversation is evolving at Wikia's search.wikia.com
(www.search.wikia.com) community wiki, through which Wikia is funding
and supporting the development of something radically new. Together
Miller and Wales aim to build a new economy for Internet search that
relies on absolute transparency, collaboration, and human intelligence
to complement search algorithms.

"Jeremie is a brilliant thinker and a natural fit to help
revolutionize the world of search," said Jimmy Wales, founder and
chairman of Wikia. "I believe Internet search is currently broken and
the way to fix it is to build a community whose mission is to develop
a search platform that is open and totally transparent. This is
exactly what we've set out to do at search.wikia.com and we're
thrilled to have Jeremie helping evolve this vision."

For more information or to get involved, please visit: www.search.wikia.com

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