Posts Tagged with ‘Wikia-Search’

This week saw the launch of Wikia Search, and the revelation that Mahalo is still relying on Google for most of its traffic, using SEO strategy to drive it. And while everyone wants to be the search engine that actually succeeds in drawing users away from Google, no one really thinks that a contender has appeared yet.
Here's the rub: Google is processing over 20,000 terabytes PER DAY. No start-up in the world is going to have the cash to process [...]

We got some great news from Powerset today, that the much awaited “natural search” engine will be operating Powerlabs to get feedback and inform the Internet community. Co-founder Steve Newcomb provided us with the first look inside their Powerlabs program, which will be an ongoing feedback and information portal. Steve sent us a couple of exclusive screenshots revealing the Powerlabs interface and a search result (only the second ever seen outside Powerset’s doors). Powerlabs looks like it will be the [...]

We had an exclusive interview with Dr. Riza C. Berkan, CEO of hakia today. For those of you who don't know, hakia is building the Web's new “meaning based” search engine. The vision of the company is to improve search relevancy and interactivity to take web search beyond its current boundaries and into the future. We have covered hakia on a couple of occasions and have been loocking forward to talking with Dr. Berkan.  
Dr. Berkan is a nuclear scientist who specializes in artificial [...]

March 11, 2007 - Profy got a rare opportunity today to talk with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, Wikimedia (non-profit foundation), Co-Founder of Wikia Inc., and more recently innovator of Wikia-Search which we have covered on other occasions.
I caught up with Mr. Wales in Japan, where he is interviewing applicants for a position on the Wikia staff as Japan Community Manager. We talked briefly about some topics of interest to everyone and about a few that were either suggested by Profy, [...]