Wikipedia-based Search Engine: Exclusive Screenshot
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| Google is very good at many types of search, but in many instances
| it produces nothing but spam and useless crap. Try searching for
| the term 'Tampa hotels', for example, and you will not get any
| useful results... Essentially, if you consider one of the basic
| tasks of a search engine, it is to make a decision: 'this page is
| good, this page sucks....'
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/23/wikipedia-to-launch-searchengine-exclusive-screenshot/
This blog post contains some details rather than a vague declaration of
intent...
The software equivalent of the above are proprietary tools that do not suit
the user and cannot be customised/self tailored. Personalised search is
Google's attempt to avoid a 'one size fits all' approach. Wikipedia and
Google use Linux infrastructures.
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.wikipedia.org
Even MSN search sits behind Akamai (Linux)...
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.search.msn.com
Way to go Microsoft. Now go ahead and use your IP to fight the GPL...
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