Search Wikia was a nonsense see this http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080111.wweb11/BNStory/T...
I was bit confused when I wrote the first post. Obviously Wikia is seperate from Wikipedia, but I am sure it is one of its biggest benefactors too.
I saw a press release the day I saw "the grand opening" and checked the page for news and was shocked that I was already registered and able to edit. I tend to delete cookies after a day or two and hadn't visited Wikia in weeks. I was bit hungover and presumed the interwiki had begun! my bad.
wikia can get you a top ten listing on google and I am not suggesting anybody try it as joke. like wikipedia there are vigilent b and sys there.
search wikia is going to work on ratings? so no or not a lot of home spun raters going to be out there. is it just going to be a review site or an idea Jimbo sprung up for a bit of media?
I'm still very confused. The last time i went there on Special:Wantedpages AltaVista was there with 5 entries.
mike
On 08/01/2008, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/01/2008, doc doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com wrote:
What really confuses me is not the links between Wikipedia and the SearchWikia, but the lack of them. I think they/we are missing an obvious possibility.
When I search wikia for "example", two questions arise:
- Why is the Wikipedia article on "example" not listed? It is rated
third in Google, why not at all by wikia? Even when a type "example wikipedia" I don't get a hit? What on earth? Wikipedia seems to be excluded from most searches - or certainly undervalued.
Welcome to the black art of trying to figure out search engine algorithms. First google is a bad choice of comparison here it overanks wikipedia compared to pretty much everyone else. The most popular theory is that google is more relying on domain authority than pagerank. There are other elements such as site age and content change rate that could be causing wikipedia to rank highly. There are other theories.
-- geni
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