Wikiseek
Type of site | search engine |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | SearchMe |
| Created by | SearchMe |
| Registration | no |
| Launched | January 17, 2007 |
| Current status | Inactive |
Wikiseek was a
Wikiseek was granted permission by the Wikimedia Foundation to index the Wikipedia website.[2] Wikiseek has made financial contributions to the Wikimedia Foundation,[2] and the group-edited blog, TechCrunch reported that it was donating the "majority" of advertising revenue.[1]
Wikipedia pages were re-indexed whenever Wikipedia had a database clean-up; external links were re-indexed weekly.[2] Search results included tag clouds of Wikipedia categories that contained the search term.[1] The first three results of any search would always be Wikipedia articles, and the remainder were a mix of Wikipedia content and websites linked to from Wikipedia.[1] The service used user feedback to reduce the likelihood of spam.[3]
TechCrunch commented that the search engine may cause confusion with the
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Wikipedia Search Engine WikiSeek Launches". TechCrunch. 16 January 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
- ^ a b c d "Wikiseek: Leveraging Wikipedia For Web Search, Poorly". Search Engine Land. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
- ^ a b "Wikipedia Gets Plug-In Search Engine". InformationWeek. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
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