[Search-l] Swicki

[EVANS, KENNETH (WOODY)]

I've got some faith in the swicki idea...
but they do take loads of work (or loads of people) to properly tend... 
This does indeed sound in-line with Wikia.

Couple of sample swickis:
http://sustainability--swicki.eurekster.com/spimes/
http://neopets-swicki.eurekster.com/

They do require constant care!!

In case it's useful to anybody, I wrote about them here:
	'Getting "Swicki" with It: Pruning Your Search Design'
	Woody Evans; _Searcher_; Nov/Dec 2006; pg. 59.

	'Do swickis really enable users to return more relevant results?
[A 	librarian] "kicks the tires" to find out if the components of
these 	specialized engines are living up to expectation.'
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/nov06/index.shtml

WE


-----Original Message-----
From: search-l-bounces at wikia.com [mailto:search-l-bounces at wikia.com] On
Behalf Of Simon Capstick
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:35 AM
To: search-l at wikia.com
Subject: [Search-l] Swicki

Is Swicki [1] a relevant technology?  At least superficially it seems to

match some of the Wikia project's goals.

Simon

[1] http://eurekster.com/products
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