wikia search what do you think ?
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Rome wasn’t built in a day. Anybody slating a new search engine in the first few weeks of alpha is being too harsh. Give it a year and see how it goes. I like the way it shows my face when you search for my site, Google doesn’t do that.
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Patrick It’s not a new search engine thou… it’s Nutch.
DaveN
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I understand they are still building in Rome today?
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[...] struggling to understand the benefits to be honest. But as someone’s just commented at DaveN’s blog, Rome wasn’t built in a day. However I’m sure the Roman’s had better [...]
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I quite like the people matching part too as this makes it a bit different from normal search engines.
The results really are awful at the moment though, looks like using keywords in your domain works pretty well
http://re.search.wikia.com/search#search%20engine%20marketing - 8
I like the way the page retains the earlier listed results and erm … the colour schemes nice, very web 2.0.
Not sure about the results they seem a bit scattered.
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Nutch.
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hmmm, slight problem with duplicates http://re.search.wikia.com/search#ruby%20on%20rails
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Seems to have big problems with duplicates
http://re.search.wikia.com/search#ruby%20on%20rails - 12
That has got to be the best use of their logo I’ve seen thus far!
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I am just looking at it now. The first few searches look pretty bad. I am signing up for account right now to see how I can use it to my advantage.
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Doesn’t handle the long tail to well. So far, it’s not setting the world on fire.
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[...] asked what people think of Wikia Search, and I can’t say anything else but: crap. The results are crap, [...]
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[...] asked what people think of Wikia Search, and I can’t say anything else but: crap. The results are crap, [...]
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14 million dollars and the result are lame. I hope they can get it together soon.
FYI: The press release for Wikia outranks wikipedia.org for the word wiki. - 18
Does anyone know how similar Nutch is to Google’s infrastructure? For all I know it could be like comparing apples to oranges but who knows..
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When they start sending me loads of traffic it will be time to sit up and take notice…. Good luck to them.
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Adam Moro:
Nutch uses hadoop, which is almost a direct clone of the Google file system and Map-reduce.Bigtable (the google database) isn’t quite completely ported yet though.
The actual ranking algorithms are quite different, IMO, though.
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I havent seen alot of it, it’s a nice concept in a perfect world, but am I wrong in saying the results are best on user votes? If so arent SEO companys just going to be voting clients highly on multiple accounts?
& thus the rich get richer? ^_^ - 22
[...] but it just could provide some clarity on Google’s core abilities. Apparently, “Nutch uses hadoop, which is almost a direct clone of the Google file system and Map-reduce.” To me that sounds like gold in an industry based on [...]
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[...] de resultaten in de toekomst echter beter gaan worden vraag ik me af. Tot die tijd blijf ik me toch gewoon richten op [...]
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I dont believe in the concept. And till now, the results are crap.
I dont think this will be a lot better in the future. - 25
If I look for the term SEO on a dutch browser I get Chinese results?
Even a monkey could do better.
1996 I would say WOW
1998 hmmm but Google is better
2000 does this still works?
2008 they launch that crap as a product? is it some money laundering or what?