[Search-l] the concept of a wiki mini article for search results

[jer]

Actually Jason, the "Also try:" notes that Mahalo articles have are  
much closer to what I was thinking for the purpose of mini articles,  
just simple small blurbs that link to other keywords.

The Guide Notes look like they are very much real content, small  
editorials on the topic.  That's the kind of stuff that should be in  
the normal search results for keywords.

Have you considered licensing dumps of your content under a CC  
license that still protects your commercial use (which I know you've  
expressed needs to be protected in your case) like: http:// 
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ ?

Jer

On Oct 2, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Jason Calacanis wrote:

> On 10/1/07, jer <jeremie at jabber.org> wrote:
>> There's two potential discussion threads here, one is purely the idea
>> itself - what would a mini wiki article above any search result be
>> like, and the other is distribution - how do lots of different
>> entities support the idea together.  Getting a good sense on the
>> first one is necessary to know if it's worth figuring out the  
>> second :)
>
> We've been doing this at Mahalo with our "Guide Notes" for the past
> year. We're totally open to licensing these to folks for the standard
> link back/credit. Some examples:
>
> http://www.mahalo.com/Darfur
> http://www.mahalo.com/Inter-Korean_Summit
> http://www.mahalo.com/In_Rainbows
>
> Jer: How would we participate in the Atlas stack? Just add this info
> and license terms in a Freebase style way?
>
> best j
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