[Search-l] Introducing Wikia Evolution

[Aerik Sylvan]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Dan Lewis <dan at wikia-inc.com> wrote:

> The mission of Wikia Evolution: To empower users to interact with search.
>
> We want to make it dead-simple for you to add URLs into our index
> under appropriate keywords.  Already, we're the cutting edge when it
> comes to incorporating user feedback into our search results, so much
> so that Google is experimenting with eerily similar features.   Wikia
> Evolution pushes the envelope even further.  It allows you to quickly
> and easily add the web page you are on into Wikia Search, directly
> from your browser, for whatever keyword is appropriate.  Instant
> indexing!   Then, you can modify the search result to make it really
> killer, all without leaving the page you're on.
>
> Letting everyone modify search results pages is of fundamental
> importance — but you can't on either Google or Yahoo.    We can't
> change that, sadly, but Wikia Evolution does the next best thing.
> Using Wikia Evolution, you can add and rate URLs directly from Google
> or Yahoo, and those contributions will be immediately incorporated
> into Wikia Search.
>
>
Cool.  What is Wikia's policy going to be with regards to automated
submissions?  In other words, users can use the ajaxy interface on
search.wikia to add to the index, etc., users can use the toolbar to do it
also...  suppose someone wanted to have their application do automated
(theoretically non-spammy) submissions to the index?  Is this welcomed,
frowned on...?  Here an even more concrete example:  I have a social
bookmarking/tagging thing.  By definition, users are saying that the tags
they use are keywords for the urls they are tagging.  I could, for instance,
post those keywords to search.wikia...?

Best Regards,
Aerik



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