[WikiEN-l] new search engine for Wikipedia launched

[Ned Scott]

This is pretty slick. How does the search decide which image to use  
for the search-result-snippits? Or rather, can you give us some more  
details on the technical side of the search?
-- Ned Scott

On Dec 24, 2007, at 8:50 PM, J.H. Huang wrote:

> Hi folks,
> We have just launched a new Wikipedia-based search engine -
> http://www.seariki.com
>
> The idea is to combine searching and browsing effectively. For  
> example, we
> find paths from a category to top categories, and hopefully this makes
> navigating through category hierarchy easier.
> At this time, only English and Chinese are supported, but we are  
> working on
> indexing more languages.
>
> Any comments will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks and happy holiday.
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