Posts Tagged with ‘search-wikia’

Freebase is an accessible database that is editable like Wikia and Wikipedia. The startup has been in private alpha testing but just opened beta doors to the public. The service is aimed at organizing the world's data. The database has been seeded with over 2 million topics from Wikipedia and other sources and this data is currently in "read" form for everyone with "write" capabilities reserved for registered users. Freebase aims to deliver on Google's promise to organize the world's [...]

Free online encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the most popular sites on the Web, and Jimmy Wales has operated the multilingual virtual encyclopedia for??6 years without the first ad. If you think about this for a minute the significance of operating one of the world’s most popular web sites without a scrap of adverting for years really sinks in. Who does this kind of thing, governments?
News from Reuters/Yahoo!??today announced that Wikipedia may add some trivia games and quiz programs in [...]

It is about time for another edition of "Where are they now?" So, let's see where some of the prime and not-so prime startup cuts are now. The roundups are getting more and more selective and contentious as one promising startup after another loses ground to still competition.
Every time we do a visitation on cool startups I hope to find something striking and innovative to report on. Based on several of our roundups and those on other blogs, it [...]

Search Wikia - Watch
On a non-news day, I thought it appropriate to check in on some of our recent entrants into the world of web 2.0 as promised. Wikiasari, which is no longer the name by the way, is working on a real language search engine to fill in the gaps left by Google.
The current site is named Search Wikia, and it is obvious on visiting the site that Jimmy Wales has the creative wheels turning. The look of [...]