Sean Dean wrote: > Ive been following it, but haven't posted anything over there. Honestly, if > you read a lot of the "public" content in the forum and mailing list it > provides you with absolutely nothing in terms of what they will be doing. > > Jimmy Wales is still running 100% of the show, and every now and then you see > some article with him boosting his "idea". I haven't seen any power or > "commands" given to the general (unorganized) community. > > They might turn out to surprise me, but so far its been ALL public relations. > I manage a search engine based on Nutch and Lucene and its still bigger then > there's, too bad I cant wheel and deal the same PR monkey's. > > > My search engine is more proof of concept (and a hobby) then anything else, > but maybe one day it will generate more then the $20 per month in Google Ad > revenue it does now. A free tip for budding search engine creators; go > vertical or go home.* > > * home = http://www.google.com/ > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Dennis Kubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 1:37:02 AM > Subject: Wikia Search Engine? Anyone working on it? > > > Just a curiosity. I saw the new article about the Wikia search engine > in Fast Company magazine. Is anybody here working with that project or > planning on working with it? > > Personally I am working on a separate search project but I keep seeing > that they are going to use Nutch and Lucene. I haven't really seen > anybody that has been active on the lists say they are going to be > involved in the project though? What is everyone's interest level on this? > > Dennis Kubes > I also follow the list with no posts. As far as i can tell, the search-i mailing list is not *that* active for such a community. The list seems to used for idea and link exchange. Since nutch is a possible solution for wikia search maybe we should be more active in the project. Also I believe there are some people in the nutch community who has precious hands-on xp with an online search engine. And i encourage them to take part in wikia search.
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