Jimmy Wales to Launch New Search Engine
The new search engine to be launched by Mr. Wales has yet to be named.
Detailes of Wales’ new search engine are very scetchy at best but what we do know is that the engine will rank websites using the human element as opposed to the traditional algorithms used by Google, Yahoo et al.
An active discussion is currently going on at Brett Tabke’s Webmasterworld entitled Founder of Wikipedia Plans Search Engine to Rival Google read it to get the full picture of Jimmy’s new search engine venture.
Can Jimmy Wales pull this off? Many think he can especially as he was so successful in garnnering the power of the masses in developing Wikipedia.
Wikipedia’s success is mainly due to the participation of many users around the world to jointly build a comprehensive encyclopedia. This concept of user generated content is what is known as Web 2.0. Jimmy Wales will attempt to use the same Web 2.0 concept to build his new search engine.
Update…
WikiSeek has launched
Here’s what webmsters are saying about this new search engine