User Participation Drives Retooled Wikia Search Engine - Yahoo! News
One concern with a community-based system is that users will try to “game the system,” deleting references to competitors or engaging in trash talk in the comments. “We should see some fierce edit wars on this one,” noted Erick Schonfeld on the TechCrunch blog.
As if no [...]
Dennis Kubes has a nice response on the Lucene mailing list about what Wikia is up to and I think it goes a long way in showing that most of the pundits (TechCrunch) out there just don’t get it. They are BUILDING a search engine. It is not complete. It is an open source project. [...]
Analyst: Wikia Search Fails To Deliver - Yahoo! News
“But one analyst said he isn’t so sure Wales’ efforts do much to improve the current model.”
My god, give me a break. It’s an ALPHA release. This is what people don’t get about open source. In open source, you put everything out there almost all the time. [...]
Can Social Search Take Down Google? - Yahoo! News
“I think he doesn’t really understand the scale of what Google has to handle in terms of the queries from around the world and the amount of traffic that flows to it and the attempts that are made to try to manipulate it,” said Danny Sullivan, editor [...]
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