More seriously, WikiSeek appears to me as niche-specific search engine with limited reach rather than anything close to generic ones like Google for example…, yet it has its own role (chance) in the very crowded search engine market, Google owns 99% of the market and all the rest small even smart start-ups own the rest, for now…

What is interesting fact is that start up search engines are raising upon us on daily basis, way more than the time Google launched and established itself as leader, which is a little indication about the fact that it is all about time for change… best of luck to all involved.

While tag-based approaches like del.icio.us have done a good job filtering spam, the frequency-based results challenge the user to make the relevant ranking on her or his own.

If Wikiseek can combine the tag-based approach with easy, new add/reorder/delete features, Wikiseek could offer a very compelling search alternative.

HAHAHAHAH. I love left click and read their source codes and save it…. Better luck next time spammers!!!

I love your javascripts! I will take it without credit your work.

Like someone said, humans have no integrity. And unfortunately, the dollar bill is all these days, doubly so online.

Google has nothing to worry about

They may prove to be right, but we just couldn’t see going the wiki route because there is just so much motivation to edit it to put your own site on top for anything and everything. Someone could put their Vermont ice cream store on top for a search on “business” for example. Others might make changes to police some of that, but what is their motivation to do so over the long haul?

The downside for us is that to do it right, you need a lot of paid people to do the editing of results while you try to bring in user involvement as much as possible (without giving up control completely). Bessed is offering the user involvement via on-page commenting, but rounding up 100 editors and finding a way to pay them is proving to be a bit more difficult. All in all, however, it feels like the only way to effectively do human-powered search.

We’ll soldier on, but not with the wiki route. Can’t wait to see the future of wikiseek and Jimmy Wales’ search engine project.

Google and Wikisearch will co-exist well. Both tools are needed and I don`t seem them as competing.

It’s content is a mess. Many of its articles remain barren, even after all these years, while others are bloated with useless information and anecdotal nonsense. Plus tons of external links and spam. Even after all that garbage is excised what’s left is often inaccurate and unreliable.

And as for “Wikipedia — the user-edited encyclopedia” — I think people generally agree that Wikipedia’s ‘user-edited’ concept no longer exists. Many of Wikipedia’s most prominent articles are locked. Managers apparently at some point saw the the whole system falling victim to vandals and spammers, so they made the terrible mistake of surrendering editorial control to a cartel of admins who now take it upon themselves to lock articles and delete user changes at will. They now run the show; normal people have NO ACCESS to hundreds of articles throughout the website.

Given all this, it’s a real head-scratcher when i see any third party attempt to extend the failed Wiki model into new concepts. What are they hoping to accomplish? Seems to be a dead end as far as I can tell.

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We will need to see how the site operate in practice but I have my doubts.