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Mahalo, a wikipedia that pays, and fed probe targets Google, Yahoo, Apple.
ADOTAS — A quick news glance around the webosphere. Federal Antitrust Probe Targets Google, Yahoo and Apple. (Washington Post) Plaintiff’s Lawyers Allege NebuAd Staged Closing. (Mediapost) Silicon Alley vs. Silicon Valley. (WSJ) Jason Calacanis Tries Turning Mahalo Into a Wikipedia That Pays. (MediaMemo) Alibaba Plans To Spend At Least $200 Million On Acquisitions. (Paidcontent) Microsoft issues [...] more...
Powerset Hopes To Overpower Google
ADOTAS – Powerset has uncovered a fancy new set of tools for searching the sometimes tough to pin down Wikipedia (keyword searches only go so far, especially if they’re imprecise). Conversational phrasing is now an option — Powerset’s technology will parse the search words, queries and sentences to figure out [...] more...
Wikipedia’s Financial Future Debated
Scroll the list of the 10 most popular websites in the U.S., and you’ll encounter the Internet’s richest corporate players — names like Yahoo, Amazon.com, News Corp., Microsoft and Google. Except for No. 7: Wikipedia. And there lies a delicate situation. With 2 million articles in English alone, the Internet encyclopedia “anyone [...] more...
Oscar Search: Where Users Clicked
The writer’s strike has officially ended and the first big event since the truce has finally taken place, the 80th Annual Academy Awards. This event is not only a huge night for the film industry, but it is another of the few advertising opportunity juggernauts both off and online with [...] more...
Google Beseeches Government For Public Records
Today, a Google executive is anticipated to ask the federal government to adopt a standard that will make hard-to-find or unavailable public records accessible through search engines. Google’s manager of public sector content partnerships, John Needham said in a prepared testimony to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee [...] more...
The Outlaw Jimmy Wales: Discovering the Man Behind the Monolith That is Wikipedia
Few websites can claim to have changed the way that people find information like Wikipedia. Universally accessible and open to all who would share their knowledge, the Wikipedia contains more one and a half million articles in the English section alone and growing. It’s available in 250 languages, and holds [...] more...
Wikipedia Cracks comScore Top Ten
Wikipedia, the “online encyclopedia that anyone can edit,” has risen in January to become one of the top ten most popular sites on the Internet in the US, according to new numbers released by comScore. Sites on the Wikipedia ranked ninth overall, drawing in 42.9 million users last month, beating out [...] more...
Searchme Launches Wikipedia-Based Search Engine
Search engine technology developer Searchme today released a consumer-level meta search engine that displays Wikipedia results above normal Web search results. As a standard search engine, Wikiseek uses Seekme’s technology to query many vertical search engines simultaneously and uses those results to suggest what the user is most likely looking for. [...] more...
Wikipedia Founder Revving Up New Search Engine
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said he will be launching a new, for-profit search engine, code-named Wikiasari, sometime in early 2007. Like the non-profit Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, Wikiasari will rely on users to provide the content in order to overcome the many irrelevant results from standard [...] more...
Yahoo! Expands Wikipedia Search
According to the official Yahoo! Search blog yesterday, Yahoo! is expanding its relationship with Wikipedia to make Wikipedia more accessible and easier to use with fewer scrolls and clicks. Kalpana Ravinarayanan of Yahoo! Search explains, “When you see a Wikipedia result in Yahoo! Search, we’ll also include a section of [...] more...
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