JS_Harris
msg:3884582 | 6:16 am on Apr 3, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I haven't ever received a single visitor from Wikia Search, I concur, the economy was not the problem.
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bwnbwn
msg:3884765 | 12:32 pm on Apr 3, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I didn't even know it existed and as well have never seen it in my log files so there can't be much of a user base.
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taasinge
msg:3884781 | 1:02 pm on Apr 3, 2009 (gmt 0) |
They have a search engine?
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rich_b
msg:3884816 | 1:51 pm on Apr 3, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Never heard of it. Maybe it never existed and this is a publicity stunt - then miraculously they'll launch it. Er, I mean save it from oblivion.
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wheel
msg:3884828 | 2:12 pm on Apr 3, 2009 (gmt 0) |
They have a search engine? |
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Lol. It's quotes like this that make me wish we had sig lines here.
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Makaveli2007
msg:3885081 | 7:59 pm on Apr 3, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Werent they talking about being the next google killer and all? Nothing wrong with a little cockiness and trash talk, but if you go out like this, it's plain ridiculous. that's like a 5th grader who hasnt played basketball before c hallenging MJ in his prime
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Umbra
msg:3885495 | 4:28 pm on Apr 4, 2009 (gmt 0) |
That's great news! I trust their Wiki spider will stop hammering at our websites.
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kaz
msg:3885499 | 4:33 pm on Apr 4, 2009 (gmt 0) |
| that's like a 5th grader who hasnt played basketball before challenging MJ in his prime |
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kinda like saying something like ... ? | "reduces the sort of bottleneck of two or three firms really controlling the flow of search traffic," said Wales - WebmasterWorld thread [webmasterworld.com] |
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Angonasec
msg:3890367 | 4:14 am on Apr 11, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Cuil next?
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jmccormac
msg:3895846 | 2:18 am on Apr 20, 2009 (gmt 0) |
It was a pity that it failed. It really had some good people involved and they seemed to be serious about the backend and software. However all search engines depend on the quality of their search index for their success. I took a look at the URLs in Wikia Search's last database dump and the quality was very poor. This is the area, search index quality, that had they concentrated on it would have made a difference. Real search professionals are far rarer than the enthusiastic amateurs that Wikipedia relies upon for its continued success. Regards...jmcc
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subhankar ray
msg:3907494 | 11:58 pm on May 5, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Was it based on Nutch crawler and Lucene indexing?
My hats off to Wales for Wikipedia though..
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