Wikipedia announces search engine plans - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 12th Mar 2007, 11:02

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/03..._engine_plans/

r4tch3t · 12th Mar 2007, 11:50

This is great, having it open source means we can fully customize our search priorities, no more annoying sites with little or no relevance to what we are searching for

5% that is a reasonable target, not overstepping themselves. I myself use Google, and absolutely hate Yahoo, gave up using it years ago, too much irrelevant stuff and way too cluttered.

David_Fitzy · 12th Mar 2007, 11:53

I'd just like to be able to search for a product and get information for it and not a billion online salers

r4tch3t · 12th Mar 2007, 11:54

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Originally Posted by David_Fitzy

I'd just like to be able to search for a product and get information for it and not a billion online salers

Same here, liek when looking for a review, or specs of a component, you get nothing but resellers. Nothing relevant.

bilbothebaggins · 12th Mar 2007, 12:21

No matter how great or crappy it's going to be ... a little competition can never hurt ... and if it's opensource, the better

Tyinsar · 12th Mar 2007, 15:53

randosome · 12th Mar 2007, 18:28

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Originally Posted by r4tch3t

Same here, liek when looking for a review, or specs of a component, you get nothing but resellers. Nothing relevant.

QFT completly

Man i hate these NVA (no value added) websites

DXR_13KE · 12th Mar 2007, 22:46

AOL search!!!!!!!!!

i think this is a good step.... open source for the win!!!!!

Aankhen · 12th Mar 2007, 23:35

It's great that they're entering the search engine market, but I wouldn't dismiss Google's advantage out of hand that way:

Google has a bunch of extremely smart people who are actually willing to put in effort and build things. Wikipedia could hypothetically attract ten times the entire size of Google's staff, but how many of those people would have both the skills and dedication to do what Google's engineers do?
Google has an extremely large cash pool. Yes, they may proudly flaunt their servers built from commodity parts, but there are a lot of those servers. Wikia Inc. will need to sink a lot of money into this engine to be competitive.

I don't mean to discourage anyone; an open source search engine is an excellent idea. I was just a little amused by Wales's comment.

DougEdey · 13th Mar 2007, 07:00

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Originally Posted by r4tch3t

Same here, liek when looking for a review, or specs of a component, you get nothing but resellers. Nothing relevant.

I always find that I get two "premium" ads at the top (like usual) then the manufacturers site or a review then a load of resellers.

It all depends on what has been indexed and what manufacturers allow to be reviewed.

Remember Google's page rank algorithm won't find a manufacturers site top of the pile unless it's been linked to.

randosome · 13th Mar 2007, 07:42

i was searching for laptop reviews last night, and atleast the first 10 links were all to these rubbish reseller / pointless review sites (you know the ones i mean)

DougEdey · 13th Mar 2007, 07:44

randosome: put -"buy" at the end of your query (remember the negative sign)

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