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Jimmy Wales building a Google, Yahoo competitor

Posted in Uncategorized. on Friday, April 20th, 2007 by Vincent Maher Tags: search, wiki
Apr 20

In an interview with Matthew Buckland yesterday, Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, said he is working on a new search engine project that he hopes will compete directly with search giants Google and Yahoo!

Wales said that by combining lessons learned with Wikipedia and social networking sites, the Wikia search project will be an open-source search engine with publicly available algorithms and will operate in a completely transparent way.

The first phase of the search project is set to launch by the end of 2007.

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    Vincent Maher is the portfolio manager for social media at Vodacom, South Africa's largest mobile telecommunications company. His flagship product is The Grid, a fast-growing location-based social network and instant messaging platform. Previously he was the strategist at the Mail & Guardian Online and co-founder of Amatomu.com, the South African blog aggregator and analytics system. Before that he was Director of the New Media Lab at the Rhodes University School of Journalism & Media Studies, the managing director of Digital Commerce and a multimedia director at VWV Interactive.

    He has worked in the online media industry since 1996, has presented papers at many international conferences and specializes in profitable innovation in emerging markets.

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