Jabber Founder to Join Forces With Wikia
I posted an article about this a few months back, but was asked about it recently in the comments for the post Matt Cutts: provide machine-readable disclosure. Wiki has been in the process of creating a search engine that they hope will rival the almighty Google.
The Wiki founder, Jimmy Wales, announced the Wiki Project back in January and is looking to add some potent support for his line up. Recently they have gotten Jeremie Miller, the founder of Jabber, to join the team.
“Jimmy sat down in January after he announced his intention to start this and said for it to succeed two things had to happen,” Wikia CEO Gil Penchina told LinuxInsider. “One, it had to be a collaborative project. It can’t turn into one company trying to take on the big search players. And two, it had to have someone who has led a major open source project before.”
In the same light as how Wiki is run where anyone can conceivably add to their online Encyclopedia, this Wiki search project is going to be open source. How exactly will this work? Is this another People’s Search Engine? Do you want to decide which engraved pens site is the best?
Miller’s first task will be to develop the necessary infrastructure Barracuda Spam Firewall Free Eval Unit - Click Here to allow a thousand or so volunteer developers to contribute to the project, Penchina said.
“Search breaks down into lots of problems — collecting and organizing data, picking algorithms, and so on,” he noted, adding that end users should have a choice in deciding which solution works best.
“If you think there is a better indexing system, you should be allowed to plug and play it. The consumer should be able to decide,” said Penchina.
As for further project benchmarks, “those are Jeremie’s calls now,” he remarked. “I can tell you that we will start to see more communication among the developers — we will start building out more project roadmaps.”
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Since Yahoo and MSN don’t seem to be able to do it, maybe these up and comers can take out or at least even the playing field with Google!
I have been reading reports that Yahoo and MSN are still negotiating…don’t know how much better that marriage would be than Google at the top.
I seldom use Yahoo, and never use MSN.