[Search-l] IRC Meetup for Technical Discussions

[Seth Finkelstein]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:48:24PM +0530, Pushparajan V wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Why not we have a elaborate discussion at IRC instead of mailing lists?..

	Well, co-ordinating across the time-zones can be difficult.

>I am still confused about what is the main objective behind the wikia project.

	Here's my gloss (note, my opinion only):

	Google is successful because it finds the most popular pages,
which it does by algorithmic analysis which calculates mass appeal.
	
	Wikipedia is successful because it creates popular pages,
which it does by a social process which selects for mass appeal.

	If someone could effectively mate these two systems (kind of a
genetic hybrid between two web data-mining behemoths), the result
would likely be very interesting, and also extremely profitable.

	It's not clear it can be done, but I'd say there's a good
argument (both abstractly, and to potential funders) that it's worth a
try.

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