[WikiEN-l] Search Wikia

[michael west]

Search Wikia was a nonsense see this
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080111.wweb11/BNStory/Technology/home

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/01/2008, doc <doc.wikipedia at 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:
> >
> > 1) 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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