Google May Face Hundreds of Rivals in Wikia

Interesting twist though...

[youfoundjake]

[news.yahoo.com...]

It looks like someone one is trying to put a dent in googles market share, but the funny thing is, they are using google's search results when searching for items on the web.

Looks like they are using Grub to index the Internet through users browsing behaviors, but at what point are they going to switch from googles search results to the results gathered from Grub?

[tedster]

I'm most definitely not seeing Google results on Wikia right now. One search term I use to test search has 19 out of 20 results different from Google - and those 19 results are frighteningly irrelevant.

It is an interesting project. Barriers to denting Google? Marketing most of all (this article is but a very modest start), and then the algo itself. I see that people will be able to create their own algo when they apply the technology themselves, but that's still a huge endeavor.

[youfoundjake]

Tedster, maybe I'm a little off, but
[wikia.com...]
is google results no? (outdated maybe) Is this the new application of Custom Google search?

And how long to do you think it will take before we start seeing link spam in there, and will they follow Wikipedias course of NOFOLLOW?

[edited by: tedster at 8:03 pm (utc) on Aug. 10, 2007]

edit ^^
heeh, how did i make a smiley graphic? I didn't see it in preview.