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Re: Wikiseek doesn’t yet impress

Jeff Haynie — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:18:19 -0000

Thanks Brian,

You're absolutely correct and I just re-read my post and I did say "The Wikipedia Foundation" in my introduction paragraph. I thought I had fixed that when I first proofed my post - but I guess I missed it....

Thanks for the correction.

Re: Wikiseek doesn’t yet impress

Brian — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:12:05 -0000

Hi, I surfed in by way of CrowdVine. WikiSeek is run by a company called Searchme that has no affiliation with the WIkimedia Foundation, although they do donate some of their revenue to the Foundation.

Re: Wikiseek doesn’t yet impress

Jeff Haynie — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:00:09 -0000

Hey Stephen, glad to hear from you - it's been awhile. I'm surprised you responded to this post and not my post about iPhone and the Speech Industry ... :)

I think you're right in the context about Ajax as a programming language vs. Ajax from the point of encyclopedic information. However, is there are strong set of use cases for a separate, standalone search engine around this type of information? It's an interesting search problem - trend vs. history I guess -- and one of context which is even more interesting in my opinion.

It would be interesting to add a relevancy ranking engine to the search results page to allow people to score search results (sort of like a digg for search results) and then try and find out how it's performing. After this post, I stumbled upon several other people who had very similar experiences to mine. Maybe it's an expectation thing, maybe it's pointing out some confusion in it's intent.... Maybe we're just all being too difficult? I dunno....

Thanks for the comment - I hope things are well for you in Redmond.

Re: Wikiseek doesn’t yet impress

Stephen Potter — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:09:32 -0000

Hi Jeff, - to be fair, in a few years time, Ajax the web technology will be left reeling and forgotten in the wake of web n.0. But the Greek mythological figure and the Dutch soccer team have stood the test of time, and will reign eternal. :-) So one could argue that Google is faddish (as is Live Search, although the soccer team comes 4th here), and Wikiseek is more universal. I know what I'd prefer from an encyclopaedia search...
(BTW - long time no see, I'm glad you're enabling comments now.)
Stephen