QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 15th July 2009, 3:09am)
QUOTE(Kato @ Tue 14th July 2009, 5:27pm)
Thank you, Kato. Anyone else? (Without throwing the thread off track, please.)
I think Wikia Search was Jimbo's idea. He muttered something about his grand vision back in 2006, and had to clarify himself shortly after when his ramblings hit the media.
Here is his 2006 clarification to the media. And it's where the term "Google killer" was first mentioned in connection with a Jimbo-fuelled search engine.
As in his rationale for Wikia Politics, Jimbo explains how his experiences setting up Wikipedia would hold him in good stead for the new Wikia Search project.
QUOTE(Jimbo)
There are a lot of things that we’ve learned in the wiki world on how to get communities involved and engaged to build trusted networks in communities.
Incidentally, at the end of that article, the writer makes an amusing correction:
QUOTE(Danny Sullivan)
Postscript: Originally I had Wales listed as cofounder of Wikipedia, but he got in touch saying he was the founder. I’d noted that Wikipedia itself lists him as founding (well, creating) it with Larry Sanger. Is Wikipedia incorrect on this, I asked? “Yes, it is wrong,†he emailed. Sanger posts his own views on the origins here.
The irony here is that Wikipedia, Jimbo's big success story, was Larry Sanger's idea.