Wikiseek launches, not to be confused with Wikiasari

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Wikiseek launches, not to be confused with Wikiasari

by Brad Linder Jan 16th 2007

Remember how we told you a few weeks ago that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Whales was working on a new search engine called Wikiasari? Yeah, that's still not ready yet.

But California-based SearchMe has launched a new search engine based on Wikipedia. It's called Wikiseek, and not only does it search Wikipedia sites, but it also indexes sites that are referenced in Wikipedia articles. When you perform a search, Wikipedia articles will be listed first, followed by results that show up as links in Wikipedia. If it wasn't mentioned on Wikipedia, you won't find it on Wikiseek.

This means there are plenty of sites out there that you're not going to find by using Wikiseek. But odds are if you've got a general query on a movie, pop group, or form of martial arts you'll get relevant search results and not much that you weren't looking for.

The project is sanctioned by Wikipedia, and although there are sponsored links on Wikiseek, the web site says the majority of revenue generated will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation.

[via TechCrunch]

Tags: search, wikiasari, wikieseek, wikipedia

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Kandarp Jani said 7:16PM on 1-16-2007

Pretty cool.

I attempted to write a similar thing using Live Search Macros.

http://search.live.com/macros/kj/seekwiki/

Eleventeen said 7:58AM on 1-20-2007

Its Wales, not Whales.

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