Comments on: Wikipedia founder to start search engine

By: tuxfux

tuxfux — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 20:27:46 +0000

Good idea. Ridicilusly bad coosen name. =) Damn, they really shouldnt name it the same as something that is so known as the grub bootloader. Really, they shouldnt.

By: ELCouz

ELCouz — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:05:44 +0000

Why would someone donate CPU time to a for-profit search engine ? ………. Wikimedia Foundation for-profit … since when ??????

Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a US-registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity.

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:56:45 +0000

WP pwns, i contribute my tv screenshots now

By: pr4wn4

pr4wn4 — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:18:14 +0000

google used to hold a premiere position amongst IT companies with all their altruistic goals and all, i’m not sure i still trust them the way i used to. there is an opprtunity to knock em off i believe, and open source would be the ideal trump card to the google ‘do no evil’ mantra

By: nebula

nebula — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:16:03 +0000

Why would someone donate CPU time to a for-profit search engine ?

By: jeunas

jeunas — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:26:53 +0000

$100 says that the first search result on every search is a wikipedia page. I don’t know about the founders but wikipedia is becoming ridiculous.
Take for example the page that’s dedicated in finding errors from Encyclopaedia Britannica. Some of the corrections are f*cked up: “Britannica is wrong because the information in wikipedia says different. I’d just want to do a Dick Cheney and shoot those ppl in the face with a spas…

By: phishybongwaters

phishybongwaters — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:05:53 +0000

It’s good to a degree, bringing democracy to information isn’t the best approach as various cases of people tailoring entries to fit their own means can be found.

It’s a great site in theory and for the most part action, I’m interested in what they have to offer in the search engine field, things could get interesting

Then again do i need a search engine that is probably gonna hammer me with results from wikkipedia?

By: bleh

bleh — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:34:42 +0000

They could at least chose a name, that is not already taken by another often searched-for pc project. The grub bootloader for linux.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:24:52 +0000

wikipedia is a very good website

By: dipshit

dipshit — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:53:31 +0000

Yeah, right, I’m really going to give up some of my proc cycles for a bloody search engine… a cure for cancer maybe… but a search engine no way, Jose.

By: nunyabiz

nunyabiz — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:32:03 +0000

Sounds very interesting! I do quite a bit of SEO myself, so I understand much of how search engines work…and currently, the biggest drawback of search engines would be the separation of relavant vs non-relevant search results (mostly due to manipulative SEOs). Google comes closest in terms of advanced algorithms, and it is said that much of their data is acquired from user input. If im understanding this Wiki concept correctly, it will provide the Grub system with even more user data, and in turn, provide more accurate SERPs. Definitely sounds like spyware to me though…haha.

By: invalido

invalido — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:56:48 +0000

sounds like a great idea. But i think it will be hard to compete with google!
They’ll need a really unique system to make that happen

By: wickido

wickido — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:48:53 +0000

wikitube, wikilog, wikip2p… do it all… wiki rocks!