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Aerik Sylvan schrieb:
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pushparajan
V</b> <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:vprajan@gmail.com">vprajan@gmail.com</a>>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">What
is the future plans ?..
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cite="mid:355a36af0707031116x328609bcjcc0da1cf3d3cb908@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">There have been many hints of stuff in the works, and
perhaps we, the general mailing list, do not have access to all the
goings on in Wikia... In the spirit of open-ness, I hope that is not
true - that at least our fearless leaders would clue is in on the
*plans*, if indeed there are any concrete ones, to build a Wikia search
engine.
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Best Regards,<br>
Aerik<br>
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Hi!<br>
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I am on the list only for a few days, but I am also curious about the
ideas/plans - what is to become of this project.<br>
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I also see working examples of search engines that function already. I
met Doug Cutting about three years ago when he introduced Nutch in
Berlin. As he put it, starting a search engine based on free software
is mainly a financial problem - running a server farm and so on. (By
the way, I did not find information what software Mahalo is using.)<br>
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In Germany we have founded an association to promote free search
engines (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.suma-ev.de">www.suma-ev.de</a>, Website going Web 2.0 soon). Michael Christen
from yacy is a member too. To support developers with helping to get
better funding could really give projects like yacy the additional
drive they need. Generally it seems to me that some projects kind of
lack the promotion they deserve. Wikiasearch had lots of promotion, but
I do not yet see how the ideas Jimmy told us could be implemented right
now.<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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Mario<br>
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