Wikia sets its sights on Google
“Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.” – Jimmy Wales
Wikia has officially entered the search market, when they announced at OSCON that they were purchasing grub from Looksmart. Can they succeed where Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask and Altavista etc have failed?
From the press release…
“The desire to collaborate and support a transparent and open platform for search is clearly deeply exciting to both open source and businesses. Look for other exciting announcements in the coming months as we collectively work to free the judgment of information from invisible rules inside an algorithmic black box.”
If you’re interested you can find out more from Search Wikia page
With an open source search engine, all sorts of applications and mashups will be possible. That begs the question? Who do you trust more Google or Wikipedia ?