3 responses to “Wikiasari to be most mis-pronounced search engine in 2007”
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Hi there Mr Mayfield – this is an exciting project indeed, but as others (notably TechCrunch) you’ve used a screenshot circulating the web that’s actually nothing to do with Jimmy Wales’ new project.
I draw your attention to:
http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Wikisearch
Wikisearch is not a search engine of the World Wide Web, and is not related to this site “Search Wikia” and to the plans for community-created search of the World Wide Web.
The screenshot is of the temporarily named ‘WikiSearch’ which I believe is just an amalgamation of search results (from MSN Live Search>?) mashed together with related wikipedia external links.
The name’s also been dropped methinks, presumably due to complete unpronouncability/tech-snobbery potential:
“Wikiasari is and will not be the name for the free search engine we’re developing. It was the name of a former project ”
actually the name for the background beta version of wikia’s software component, full story here:
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The most talked about search engine in 2007 will be Google. Guaranteed.
This Wikiasari project sounds doomed to me, as I explain in these two blog posts:
http://keysmun.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-wikiasari-will-fail.html
http://keysmun.blogspot.com/2006/12/why-developers-wont-work-on-wikiasari.html -
Thanks for your comment, Keith. I agree with a lot of the points you make.
Mr Charlieo – I did post a comment in response to your kind comment but it didn\\\’t appear (see my post about comment problems with Typepad).
Hopefully you\\\’ve seen the correction post I put up – the other thing I said was: when can we expect to see a blog from you: reckon it\\\’s high time you got one going :-)
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