Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia, is set to launch an internet search engine with amazon.com that he hopes will become a rival to Google and Yahoo!
The project has been dubbed Wikiasari — a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and asari, which is Japanese for “rummaging search”.
The search engine will exploit the user-based technology like Wikipedia and will involve human input to judge the quality of content.
[via timesonline]
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Posted on December 23, 2006
The Wikia Search project homepage explains: Amazon has nothing to do with this. Can you update your blog post, and help me spread the word on this point?