[Search-l] twin principles, or what brings us together?

[Chris Desouza]

Jim
As we build so shall we not lose track of who is building and improving around us. What I mean by this is that while the Wikia community is objectively focussed on building a search engine, they must not lose track of the advances of competitors.

No matter what Wikia search turns out to be in the end, if the competitor gets better than what it is today, it won't mean much in terms of satisfaction of a 5% market share. This is a marathon. Sometimes we lose sight of of the competitors. But this in no way implies that we are running the race merely to finish it.

We ought to be the best there could be.

Chris

Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote: This is where transparency in the form of freely licensed software 
matters, and where collaboration in the form of commmunity matters.

How do you know the Wikimedia Foundation is not taking pay from 
companies to improve their listings?  Because the entire process of 
building Wikipedia is done in a publicly accountable way.

Same idea here, although obviously the implementation and feedback 
mechanisms are going to be different in some important ways (because a 
search engine is not an encyclopedia).

Keith Botley wrote:
> Quality not filtered through a profit motive. 
> 
> Wikia Search is a for profit venture so how will the business model effect
> the search results. For instance Google makes a point to tell us that there
> are sponsored results at the top and right margins but do we really know
> that this is the only case? 
> 
> If I make a wikia search will I know, without a doubt, that I am seeing the
> most relevant crawled pages that are thoughtfully ranked by the user
> population?
> 
> Keith Botley
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>> Nobody yet pointed out a completely glaring omission, the obvious  
>> one, and perhaps the most important unifying principle of the three now:
> 
>>  Quality - Significantly improve the relevancy and accuracy of search
> 
>> results and the searching experience.
> 
> Jer
> 
> On May 7, 2007, at 1:59 AM, jer wrote:
> 
>> One thing I've spent a lot of time trying to summarize is what is it
>> that really brought us together, what defines this effort in the
>> simplest way?
>>
>> Here's what I've come up with so far as my twin principles:
>>
>>  Transparency - Openness in how the systems and algorithms operate,
>> both in the form of open source licenses and open content + APIs.
>>  Collaboration - Everyone is able to contribute in some way (as
>> individuals or entire organizations), strong social and community  
>> focus.
>>
>> We are a search community built on a shared belief in Transparency
>> and Collaboration... I hope that rings true for everyone else here,
>> it's what I personally believe in as the foundation for a better  
>> search.
>>
>> Jer
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