Talk:Human search engine

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Bearian (talk) 22:45, 28 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sources have been cited below that prove without a doubt that Human Search Engine is indeed commonly used. If Wikipedia wants to delete everything THEY refer to as a neologism, then there are A LOT of articles that need to be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.97.74 (talk)

How is this different from Social search? -- DMacks (talk) 19:30, 16 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Search Amigo is relevant and should have an article no matter where it is listed.

Source:

• [[1]] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.97.74 (talk) 03:45, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The term Human Search Engine has been used since the year 2000. So the real question is, how is Social Search any different from a Human Search Engine? Not the other way around.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-63611892.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.97.74 (talk) 21:14, 20 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Some journalists are saying Wikipedia itself is going to launch a "human search engine", yet Wikipedia wants to delete the entry. Wow. Is there more to all this?

http://www.editorsweblog.org/news/2007/09/wikipedia_to_launch_human_search_engine.php

There's nothing hidden here: all that matters is whether the wikipedia article actually mentions and cites these things. If nobody bothers to add cites to the article, it's not much better than if no cites actually exist at all. If two things are described indistinguishably from each other, then there's no evidence that they aren't the same thing. So if they are different, we need some writing the article explaining the special characteristics. If they're essentially synonymous, then they don't need separate articles: one article can mention both terms as being used to identify this thing. DMacks (talk) 02:32, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

ChaCha, Mahalo, and Wikia Search are all notable, and all have their own Wikipedia page.

MyShopPal and Search Amigo are new (but legitimate), and are only non-notable because Wikipedia keeps failing to give them a Wikipedia page.

I don't see where the "so many non-notable web sites in one article" comes from. There are only 2. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.97.74 (talk) 20:23, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The phrase 'human search engine' is not found in any of

Wikia. EdJohnston (talk) 20:41, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply

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The phrase 'human search engine' is found in ChaCha (search engine) and Mahalo .

The phrase also appears under

That's because you just added it to them, though, isn't it? --Maxamegalon2000 21:12, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The term has been added and deleted 100's of times in the past few months as Wikia becomes closer to being finished. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.97.74 (talk) 21:17, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I feel it is a conflict of interest issue. Wikipedia and Wikia Search are related, but Wikia Search is "for profit". I believe Wikipedia wants to delete the human search engine page, because they do not want any of the Wikia Search's competition listed on their site. It is all becoming clear to me.

The above is my opinion, but is the only reasonable conclusion I can come to. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.163.97.74 (talk) 20:54, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Since this is a discussion about the deletion of the article, I've started a formal

thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cowmadness (talk • contribs) 12:10, 4 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Renewing discussion - In addition to stating whether the pages should be merged, should the final merged versions be at
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