It's On!~ Wikipedia to Duke it Out With Google
by
The Station Agent
From, ironically, Yahoo (via AFP):
Man, I can't even get a Technorati tag generator to work, what chance do I have in the world of the Wikisaruses? 2007 is gonna suck!The founder of communally
-crafted online encyclopedia Wikipedia is calling for people to join him in an Internet search engine revolution, his weblog showed.Jimmy Wales planned to create a "wiki-inspired search engine" that incorporated advances made by projects such as Nutch open source search software.
Wikis are web pages that allow visitors to change, add or delete content.
Non-profit Wikipedia began as an online reference for technical terms but users built it into an expansive trove of knowledge contributed from around the world.
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Tags: Wikipedia, Google, Search Engines.























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