Comments on: Wikia Search Launches Private Beta; Public Launch On January 7

By: perde

perde — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:56:57 +0000

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By: larry

larry — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:26:30 +0000

Poll at Internet Evolution shows that the pollsters prefer Wikia search (in theory) over Google search.

I guess we’ll see soon enough if theory holds out!

By: TW Garrett

TW Garrett — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:32:12 +0000

This is a great article that gives Google and Wikia a run for it…

By: The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko

The Next Google Search Challenger: Blekko — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:50:32 +0000

[...] are other promising search startups out there. Powerset, Cuill and the upcoming Wikia Search Engine are all yet to launch. Mahalo is growing fast (but still tiny). Can anyone unseat Google? Perhaps [...]

By: Matt Ellsworth

Matt Ellsworth — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:09:17 +0000

I’m looking forward to it – we have been running the client since july – and crawled about 5,000,000 pages… so it would be nice to see the end result. It would also be nice if they fixed some of the bugs in the client and made it so you can add sites.

By: Michael Lodispoto

Michael Lodispoto — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:31:56 +0000

A better community -Meta Search engine is already out there in Beta and launches Monday with nice fanfare. It is called EarthFrisk.Org and is the world’s first Meta-Community Social Search engine which sports the best of results from Google, MSN and Yahoo, has less spam and then lets we the people vote on entries and comment. All of which adds to the new CV Rating System ( Color Value) that can be used to rate sites and people! Toolbars are also available for download in Firefox and IE and all of this will be perfected by Friday.
Only things missing so far are the simple ‘enter’ function rather than having to hit search, and also images and video are being made more Meta by Friday.
The rest is all functional and programmers and coders are rushing to be the first out there ( we already are!)
We not only have more abilities than Wiki’s upcoming search engine, but also have our own handy toolbar that people can use that in a very short time period can easily become more popular than the less democratic Pagerank system of Google. I will contacting Mike Arrington personally before the launch most likely on Friday!

By: hype.yeebase.com

hype.yeebase.com — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:53:29 +0000

Google konkurent Wikia Search startet Beta Phase…

Wikipedia und Wikia Founder Jimmy Wales hat den Start der private beta für Wikia Search angekündigt. Die private beta läuft ab sofort und Launch von Wikia Search ist für den 7. Januar angekündigt….

By: micfo.com

micfo.com — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:22:02 +0000

I like the ideology behind wikia search-”strong social and community focus”, let us see how nice it meet the objectives.

By: BeachLocal.com

BeachLocal.com — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:17:39 +0000

wow…search is so cool…woohoo!

By: James

James — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:01:10 +0000

I really hope Jimbo pulls this one off successfully. Good luck.

By: Andy Gongea

Andy Gongea — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:00:31 +0000

As Frank Lucas from American Gangster would say: My man
Two thumbs up for Jimmy

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:29:28 +0000

im really interested to see what they can pull off. Jimmy Wales is a great guy so i look forward to using this, i hope it will become better than Mahalo because IMHO its just not that great.

By: shams

shams — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:23:30 +0000

Crusade?? That’s right – among Google, Yahoo and Wikia. No muslim. hindu, jews or christus – it’s the crusade of intelligence and smartness. That’s it guys .

By: douglas

douglas — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:50:32 +0000

ps, I didn’t mean any disrespect, I was just wondering.
thanks again.

By: douglas

douglas — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:45:57 +0000

ahhh…. thanks for clarifying.

By: Ballmer

Ballmer — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:03:03 +0000

Not much content!

fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

By: funny ideas

funny ideas — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:36:58 +0000

When you decipher in back of America’s dollar bill. You will see prymind. you can’t hardly see it.

“aa” tibet/ buddist monk. Billion
“oa” Hindu. Billion.
“ao” Jewish. Billion

“io” Atheist. Zero. That’s Edgeio. hahahah.

By: Good luck

Good luck — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:28:37 +0000

“ai” cracked word in bible or di vinci code.

If you are muslim entrepenurer living dubai, shanghai, mumbai, and last letter ai countries. Stock Exchange will tell you. Your net worth is over than Google’s wealth & saudi’s oil prince. The government will pay everything for it. All You need the “ai” and Artifical intelligence search engine..

“ai” Muslims
“oo” Christians

“ia” Hakia or Wikia… you have be muslim to become next google. :/
Google & yahoo fear Muslim entrepenurer who starts company with letter “ai” search engine. He worth more than billion dollar.

“io” Atheist…forget it…

If you have western or christian ideology. you understand what’s coming in the bible. The search Crusades. :/

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:50:25 +0000

I’ve been waiting to see this for a while now. For their sake I hope they can pull this off well…

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:49:49 +0000

douglas – no. the email is public, anyone can join the list. They don’t want people talking about the actual product until the 7th.

By: douglas

douglas — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:39:32 +0000

“users are being asked politely to withhold posting any information about the beta until the public launch on January 7. Hopefully people will respect that…”

Isn’t this blog post ignoring that request?

By: Wikia to launch - human filtered search « BookTagger Blog

Wikia to launch - human filtered search « BookTagger Blog — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:37:43 +0000

[...] Wikia search launches private beta to the public January 7. [...]

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:06:45 +0000

#1 Nick – I wrote about that photo when it came out – they plugged those suckers in quick!

in all seriousness, they most likely are hooking up a batch at a time – for an alpha they might not need all 1,000 online immediately.

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:05:54 +0000

I sure hope I get into the alpha test – I emailed Jimmy as soon as I saw the email come in from the mailing list.

FYI – it’s an alpha, not a beta – no idea what the real difference is!