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Wikia search engine goes head-to-head with Google

By Daryl Campbell | January 7, 2008

This is major. From David George-Cosh of the Financial Post

Are humans really better search filters than computers? That’s the question Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes to answer as he unveils his new human-powered search engine on Monday.

Mr. Wales will open the doors to curious Web users to begin developing Wikia, the open-source search engine that borrows a page from his original free encyclopedia.

Google has surpassed all competitors but they have never faced anything like Wikpedia. Wales is banking that the whole social networking phenomenon typfied by the forums, Myspace, Facebook, Digg, YouTube and countless others including Wikipedia will be the difference where all others have come up the short.

If you have not seen Jimmy Wales explain what Wikipedia is all about check out the video.

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