Comments on: Wikipedia Search Engine WikiSeek Launches

By: The Search Lounge

The Search Lounge — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:16:46 +0000

[…] Good press: Wikipedia Search Engine WikiSeek Launches […]

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[…] and sites linked to from Wikipedia. It has been in development since 2005 and launched 1 hour ago.read more | digg […]

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Good websites that you shouldn’t have missed | TechBlogy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 03:12:27 +0000

[…] Wikipedia Search Engine WikiSeek Launches : WikiSeek is a search engine that has indexed only Wikipedia sites, plus sites that are linked to from Wikipedia. It serves two purposes. First, it is a much better Wikipedia search engine than the one on Wikipedia. Second, the fact that it also indexes sites that are linked to from Wikipedia means that, presumably, it will return only very high quality results and very little spam. In addition to the search engine, WikiSeek has two additional tools - a search plugin for FireFox, IE7 and Opera, and a really useful greasemonkey-like Firefox Extension that will change the way Wikipedia looks on that browser by adding a “WikiSearch” button to the search box […]

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WikiSeek, motor de pesquisa para wikis » Gattune! — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 01:03:35 +0000

[…] lançamento for publicado por Michael Arrington, do Techcrunch, que resume as funcionalidades do WikiSeek. O site possibilita resultados diversos […]

By: The Mysterious Wikiwix: Affiliated With Wikipedia?

The Mysterious Wikiwix: Affiliated With Wikipedia? — Sun, 20 May 2007 05:20:15 +0000

[…] Wikiseek, a search engine unaffiliated wtih Wikipedia, Wikiwix searches only Wikipedia. The “contact […]

By: Codescheme.Net

Codescheme.Net — Sat, 19 May 2007 09:44:17 +0000

Future User-Driven Apps…

The “voted on by users so it must be good” idea is due to be tested to destruction.
Not only the semi-publicized plan of Wales/Wikipedia to produce a community-fuelled search engine, hinted at here and here - but also with SquidOffers:-
The…

By: Uncommon Knowledge. » Wikiseek makes Wikipedia easier to search.

Uncommon Knowledge. » Wikiseek makes Wikipedia easier to search. — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:18:29 +0000

[…] Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch points out that Wikiseek, the new Wikipedia search engine, just went live today. […]

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Web-Sites of the Month: The Best of January 2007 | Smashing Magazine — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:10:04 +0000

By: JL

JL — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:38:51 +0000

How does someone start PPC advertising with the wikiseek site?

By: Bart_l

Bart_l — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:09:57 +0000

need another way to search the Wikipedia with Google, but without trowing in the rather complex syntax (site:ect….) ? Try http://www.wiki-search.eu, it use Google Co-op.

By: Sima

Sima — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:17:16 +0000

It think Google list results faster. And still i think i will continue reading Wikipedia articles, and search the web by Google.

By: Murali's Arena

Murali's Arena — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:38:27 +0000

Wikiseek - the wikipedia search engine…

A search engine called Wikiseek has been launched…

By: Silly Girl

Silly Girl — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:02:47 +0000

I can’t believe all the nitpicking that’s going on. It’s not multilingual? It just launched, duh!!! It’s not comprehensive? It’s supposed to be selective. And this
“I can’t believe this company got $5 million in VC funding from Sequoia. Most of the functionality can be found in Google by appending searches with “site:en.wikipedia.org”, the only thing missing is the pages linked to from Wikipedia.” Searching through the pages linked to from Wikipedia IS what’s new about this engine.

By: vincent

vincent — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:17:53 +0000

can not support chinese, so I just use google to search in wikipedia.

By: Anton

Anton — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:53:09 +0000

As per futef.com referenced above by Derek. I completely agree with you. As it stands futef could be to wikiseek what google is to msn.

My main disapointment is that it is not multilingual. With 5 million there should have been a way to make it accessible to everybody.

By: Wilbur Feeblefitzer

Wilbur Feeblefitzer — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:41:43 +0000

I think wikiseek’s corporate name is appropriate - “Searchme, Inc.” on many levels.

By: jf.sellsius

jf.sellsius — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:38:04 +0000

I tried wikiseek and didn’t think the results were comprehensive. I’m not likely to use it.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:53:47 +0000

I can’t believe this company got $5 million in VC funding from Sequoia. Most of the functionality can be found in Google by appending searches with “site:en.wikipedia.org”, the only thing missing is the pages linked to from Wikipedia.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:53:35 +0000

I got this great idea to build a google search engine with all the wikis on the wiki start page upthread, but then I googled it and found qwicka which searches several thousand different wikis.

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:02:17 +0000

I guess this is useful for the Wikipedia crowd. I’m wondering how Wikiasari will differentiate itself from this product, though.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:58:43 +0000

Ok I get it the point of having a Wiki search engine that works well. But do you really see people going to WikiSeek.com instead of Wikipedia? No.

Until there are numerous high profile Wiki’s, whats the point for a general online user that only knows Wikipedia?

By: Chris Moore

Chris Moore — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:52:55 +0000

Once this catches on as a search engine, I can see huge corporations with massive PR budgets dedicating staff just to maintaining their profiles on Wikipedia.

By: Nader

Nader — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:36:02 +0000

For me, this seems like a feature Wikipedia should incorporate in their massive MediaWiki system. As a stand-alone product it will have a hard time to survive.

Thinking about Findory and not getting enough traction, I wonder where Wikiseek will be in a couple of months from now? Dead, eh, Acquired-Pool?

By: Lies, Damned Lies...

Lies, Damned Lies... — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:18:56 +0000

WikiSeek - new Wikipedia search engine…

Via an article on TechCrunch, I learn that a new search engine front-end for Wikipedia, WikiSeek, has just launched. Major features are: Nice, Google/Live-style results page (rather than the crappy results page that the Wikipedia search produces) Resul…

By: derek

derek — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:14:59 +0000

for just wikipedia content http://futef.com - returns more relevant results - try searching for boston or bush and look at the first results. Also the Related Categories down the side seem better than the annoying tag cloud.