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Personal search engine Greplin is announcing the launch of its Wikipedia Search Design Contest today, with the ultimate objective of conceptualizing a better way to search Wikipedia.


This is very, very funny if you know about Wales' post-sex chats with Rachel Marsden, in which he says:

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“btw, i am recovered from 24 hours of marathon sex. lol.”
“I am supposed to be designing a Google killing search engine so I can buy a jet.”


One supposes he never did recover, since he was unable not only to finish WikiaSearch, but could not even design a Google-killing search engine for Wikipedia.

I guess she just drained him for good.
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