Thomas Müller wrote:
Hi,
I like the idea of wikiseek, to index only wikipedia content and the urls edited in
wikipedia as weblinks.
This was as well the concept develped here on the net.
So it is a "w+1" hop" concept.
Contra: The problem is,
- that the database is still not open (where to download?)
It's not a Wikimedia project. They don't have that obligation.
- the search box of wikipedia already is doing the
function
It's not a Wikimedia project, so the redundancy doesn't hurt us.
- it is a advertising spin-off of wikipedia ?, which
is introducing advertising through the backdoor into wikipedia.
It's a project independent from Wikimedia and Wikia.
- Is this a Jimmy engine ? or just hosted at
wikipedia?
I don't know about the former. It's not hosted at Wikipedia because it's
not a Wikimedia project.
- quote:, "of course i am sad that it is a
company rather than an open source project" - so the spin-of is taking a distance to
the open source approace of the coding and the open source approach of the database,
It's not Wikimedia, so I don't think anyone here is specially qualified
to comment on their reasoning. And nothing obligates them to take an
open-source approach to development, even if they index Wikipedia's content.
- searching wikiseek will found wikipedia? this is not
the way to go, as we can found wikipedia directly, all other is oeconomic corruption of an
encyclopaedie? -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCPA
If you don't like it, don't use it.
- Searchme was co-founded by Randy Adams, CEO, and
John Holland, CMO. The Company received initial funding from Sequoia Capital, so nothing
related to the goals of Jimmy?
No idea.
- not a java engine
That's a *bad* thing?
- this project is disturbing the community, as no one
knows the network and relationships for the collaboration from whom to whom.
I would say it's having no effect on the community.
- wiki goes oeconomic?
Hmm?
- if it is not open source, why then not using google.
Use Google if you like. For me, Google still seems to give better
results, even for Wikipedia.
- wikiseek is violating the GPL licence of wikipedia,
as users give the urls reviewed by hand to wikipedia as well in licence of GPL. Any
Bibliographic index has a copyright, and this is GPL for the external lists of weburls to
each article, as the url is not just an url, but a content reference of the article. As
the database of wikiseek is using and summarizing them, and it is not a GPL database of
wikisek, this is a licence conflict.
No, it's not. Search engine indexes do not need to obtain licensing for
the media they index.
Well, the draft of this search engine proposal is
good, but not workable on the market, as any wikipedia has a search box for the works and
as well you get the external links in the acticle after you have read it.
I think either success or failure would have little impact on the people
here.
any comments? ;-)
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Datum: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:37:26 +0100
Wikiseek is a new way to search Wikipedia. Wikiseek searches only Wikipedia and external
Wikipedia links. Because these links are selected by the Wikipedia community, Wikiseek
search results are likely to return more relevant results for many searches.
This Wikiseek Community Wiki is hosted by Wikia but Wikiseek is an independent project
with no affiliation with Wikia or Wikipedia.