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post Sun 14th January 2007, 2:27pm
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Wikipedia offers searches you can tweak
Wilmington Morning Star, NC - 34 minutes ago
By Curtis Krueger,. Jimmy Wales, a Florida man who became a tech icon by co-founding the vast online encyclopedia called "Wikipedia," has now launched ...
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post Mon 15th January 2007, 5:59am
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ST. PETERSBURG -- If lightning can strike in cyberspace twice, Jimmy Wales wants to find out.

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post Mon 15th January 2007, 6:47am
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Wikipedia founder's search engine wants you to decide how it works
Press-Enterprise (subscription), CA - 1 hour ago
INTERNET: Though he uses Google, he wants his own project to be more open about procedures. By CURTIS KRUEGER. Jimmy Wales, a tech icon since co-founding ...
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post Mon 15th January 2007, 6:50am
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INTERNET: Though he uses Google, he wants his own project to be more open about procedures.

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post Tue 16th January 2007, 1:16pm
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WikiSeek Dives Into Wikipedia
WebProNews, KY - 12 minutes ago
It's a little confusing around Wikipedia these days. You can search Wikipedia from within Wikipedia, or seek data from Wikipedia from WikiSeek. ...
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post Tue 16th January 2007, 1:10pm
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It's a little confusing around Wikipedia these days. You can search Wikipedia from within Wikipedia, or seek data from Wikipedia from WikiSeek. Eventually there will be another Wikipedia search from Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales and company, but everyone who thinks it will be called Wikiasari is mistaken because that's a different project entirely and not the Search Wikia that Wales is ...

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post Tue 16th January 2007, 1:12pm
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Wikiseek: Leveraging Wikipedia For Web Search, Poorly
Search Engine Land, CT - 46 minutes ago
The Wikipedia search engine has arrived -- Wikiseek -- but it's not the Wikipedia search engine you're thinking of. Wikiseek is completely different than ...
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post Tue 16th January 2007, 3:34pm
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New search engine

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post Tue 16th January 2007, 5:32pm
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A search engine launched today - Wikiseek - uses Wikipedia as its base for a general web search, but its results are pretty weak.



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post Tue 16th January 2007, 6:33pm
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<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=Nw_fgTh_dVoJ&imgurl=blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/wikiseekresults.jpg width=79 height=42 alt="" border=1>SearchMe Launches Wikiseek, A Wikipedia Search Engine
Wired Blogs - 31 minutes ago
The search engine company SearchMe has launched a new service, Wikiseek, which indexes and searches the contents of Wikipedia and those sites which are ...
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post Tue 16th January 2007, 6:53pm
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I had planned on publishing an in-depth review of the new Wikipedia-based search engine, WikiSeek, but it wasn't supposed to launch until tomorrow and now TechCrunch has decided not to wait on their coverage. So, I'll let you read their post, while I go over to the corner of the room and sulk. WikiSeek is a search engine that has indexed only Wikipedia sites, plus sites that are linked ...

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post Tue 16th January 2007, 7:52pm
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Search leader Google continues to increase its market share, but in December, rival Yahoo grew along with it.

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post Tue 16th January 2007, 8:43pm
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A company called SearchMe has debuted a new tool that queries Wikipedia pages and lets humans help make the results more relevant. In Monkey Bites.

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post Tue 16th January 2007, 7:52pm
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Search leader Google continues to increase its market share, but in December, rival Yahoo grew along with it.

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post Tue 16th January 2007, 10:20pm
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New search engine launched for Wikipedia
m-net, New Zealand - 17 minutes ago
A new search tool has been launched for Wikipedia that promises to provide only high-quality results that can effectively duck search engine optimisation ...
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Search leader Google continues to increase its market share, but in December, rival Yahoo grew along with it.

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post Wed 17th January 2007, 1:13am
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Beta Wikiseek searches Wikipedia
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 35 minutes ago
By Jack Schofield 12:10am. I know what you are thinking because I made the same mistake: no, this is not Jimbo Wales's putative Wikia search engine. ...
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