Founder Of Wikipedia Launching Search Project

It comes as no surprise that the founder of Wikipedia is looking to diversify their website offerings and the next service being tested by them is search.

Unlike other search engines, the Wikia search engine will allow users to “improve” the engine by working collectively, much the same way Wikipedia allows users to modify, add or improve entries there.

“That reduces the sort of bottleneck of two or three firms really controlling the flow of search traffic,” said Wales, chairman of Wikia Inc., the for-profit venture behind the search project.

It should be interesting to see how Google handles this. The search engine leader already hands substantial amounts of traffic to the site, so in a sense Wikipedia already controls a lot of the top search engine positions.

What are your thoughts on a Wiki Search Engine? Is it something that you would use?

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