Comments on: Google vs Jimmy Wales & Open Source Search

By: Brendan

Brendan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:35:16 +0000

I think the problem is that Google have done a tremendous job on search. It will not be easy to provide a better search experience than google. When Linux started to gain market share for web infrastructure it was because there were so many faults with the microsoft web server. Also Microsoft ask the end user to put their hand in their pocket so it is easier to attack them with a free (beer) product. Google have an advertiser pays model so if I’m happy with the results I get from google, I have no reason to use another search engine.

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When does search become a real personal assistant? — Shooting at Bubbles — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:58:46 +0000

[...] In a post today Om Malik quoted Jimmy Wales from something he said in December 2006: “Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken,” Wales said back in December 2006, when Wikia launched Search Wikia effort. “Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency.” [...]

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water as fuel for cars — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:56:02 +0000

I am looking in future that Most of the people are using Grub toolbar or something else instead of Google Toolbar, Google will no longer be a standard in future. But in reality Google is undisputed winner of internet atleast today.

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Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:41:55 +0000

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By: Google’s Death Knol For Some? - GigaOM

Google’s Death Knol For Some? - GigaOM — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:46:16 +0000

[...] rightfully so. Nick Carr writes For the past year, Chief Wikipedian Jimmy Wales has been doing a lot of trash-talking about taking on Google in the search business. Now Google’s striking [...]

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trademark registration — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:25:13 +0000

It's going to be pretty tough for open-source companies like this to compete against giants like Google, but hopefully Jimmy Wales will succeed in keeping Google honest.

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Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:19:35 +0000

[...] editors. So far, the company doesn’t have anything to show for its efforts, but it recently announced the purchase of the open source web crawler Grub from LookSmart (remember them?). As part of the company’s PR efforts, Wales has tried to make [...]

By: Alt Search Engines » Blog Archive » Why Don’t Search Startups Share Data? Part 2

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:36:10 +0000

[...] tie back into that to get the raw data and avoid doing their own crawling. Even GigaOm says “The biggest hindrance to any search start-up taking on Google (or Microsoft, Ask or Yahoo for that m...“ Let’s share those costs and further defray them by having a big player like Yahoo help [...]

By: Why Don’t Search Startups Share Data, Part 2 « SmoothSpan Blog

Why Don’t Search Startups Share Data, Part 2 « SmoothSpan Blog — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:06:04 +0000

[...] back into that to get the raw data and avoid doing their own crawling. Even GigaOm says “The biggest hindrance to any search start-up taking on Google (or Microsoft, Ask or Yahoo for that m...“ Let’s share those costs and further defray them by having a big player like Yahoo [...]

By: Michael Nielsen » Open source Google

Michael Nielsen » Open source Google — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:24:30 +0000

[...] related idea was announced last week by Wikipedia’s Jimbo Wales: the Search Wikia search engine is making [...]

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By: yessel

yessel — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:47:27 +0000

We definitely need an alternate for Google for searching. And if Grub can fill the space nothing like it as it'll get inputs from the open source communities. The search results should be more oriented towards the query's context rather than just keywords or phrase. Great article.

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Jackie Danicki » Mejana — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:36:08 +0000

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[...] Google vs Jimmy Wales & Open Source Search Jimmy Wales, the founder of not-for-profit Wikipedia and for-profit, San Mateo, Calif.-based Wikia is part of a growing […] [...]