[Search-l] Short interview with Jeremie Miller

[John McCormac]

Wikinews Markie wrote:
> Ive just published the longly awaited short interview with Jer.  
> Unfortunately the interview was very short due to few questions, however 
> i have also included a development post which highlights the progress of 
> Grubs <http://www.grub.org> development.  It's published on the 
> UN-official blog at the link below.

Interesting interview. I didn't realise that Grub was quite that bad.

The repackaging of website data like that is going to create quite a 
backlash as there is nothing stopping a Made For Adsense (basically a 
site that scrapes the content of others and sticks it up with Adsense in 
an attempt to make money) using the content of real sites. As a direct 
consequence, any Wikiasearch affiliated bot will be banned from many 
websites in the same way that Grub and other troublesome scraper 
programs are banned.

On the search side, the Wikiasearch project (if we can call it that) 
doesn't seem to be doing anything beyond what hundreds of small search 
startups are doing. The management, bundling and repackaging aspects is, 
so far, perhaps the only innovative angles.

Regards...jmcc
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