Wikiasari the New Search Engine from Wikipedia January 2
The man who created possibly the world’s best-known online encyclopaedia, which allows users to update it themselves and thus contains a staggeringly wide and frequently-updated range of information, has teamed up with Amazon to create the Wikiasari (Japanese for ‘quick rummaging search’) project.
He told the Times of his plan to make this a similar open-source project to Wikipedia, using humans’ editorial judgements as far as possible.
“Essentially, if you consider one of the basic tasks of a search engine, it is to make a decision: ‘this page is good, this page sucks’,” Mr Wales explained.
“Computers are notoriously bad at making such judgements, so algorithmic search has to go about it in a roundabout way. But we have a really great method for doing that ourselves. We just look at the page. It usually only takes a second to figure out if the page is good, so the key here is building a community of trust that can do that.”
He hopes that the success of Wikipedia and his technology’s ease of use will serve to make Wikiasari a viable proposition for advertisers and users alike, providing a credible new option in the search engine stakes.
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