Wikia Search has officially launched!
As I have mentioned in my previous post, Wikia Search is now live at http://alpha.search.wikia.com/. The Wikia Search project, which is now live, officially launched in alpha form on Monday 7 January following a brief private testing period.
I tested the search results with some popular keywords and the results were far from impressive.
Anyone is able to discuss and rank search results, write and edit Mini Articles and more bringing the company claims more transparency into the search engine process.
I did a quick search for Saddam Hussain and the results were dissapointing. The results were.
Of course it is the early stages therfore lot of improvemnts will be followed. Wikai also stated on their about page:
Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine. What you see here is our first alpha release.
We are aware that the quality of the search results is low..
Wikia’s search engine concept is that of trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way. Of course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results are pretty bad. But we expect them to improve rapidly in coming weeks, so please bookmark the site and return often.
Right now, the most important thing you can do is help with the “miniarticles” that appear at the top of popular search terms. These will vary in purpose according to the circumstance, but the primary uses will be:
- Short definitions
- Disambiguations
- Photos
- See also
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