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Wikia search: Let’s give it a break

Started by mathewi · 9 months ago

I’m generally in favour of bashing those who need to be bashed, and I definitely like taking the wind out of the Web 2.0 windbags (you know who you are), but I think the blogosphere is being a little hard on Wikia Search. Mike Arrington says that it’s a letdown, All ... Continue reading »

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Mark Evans
9 months ago

Looks like you and I are aligned on the early criticism - http://www.markevanstech.com/2008/01/07/welcome...

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mathewi
9 months ago

Yeah, I meant to link to you actually, but forgot -- but now you've
done it for me :-)

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Jon Henshaw
9 months ago

I actually had a different take on it. I'm really pleased by it. It's aesthetically pleasing and seems to work quite well for an alpha release. I also like that they didn't go overboard with the social networking features.

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mathewi
9 months ago

Well, you're certainly in the minority so far, Jon. Thanks for the comment.

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mathewi
9 months ago

Well, you're certainly in the minority so far, Jon. Thanks for the comment.

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allen stern
9 months ago

i wanted to like it - and i've been playing with it since day 1. it shoudln't have been launched today, period. it was rushed for no reason.

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mathewi
9 months ago

A fair point, Allen -- makes you wonder why Jimmy decided to rush it
out the door. On the other hand, with a social site you pretty much
need to get it running in order to build up any momentum, I suppose.

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Seth Finkelstein
9 months ago

If you want to see what I mean by sycophants, read:

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/03/the_b...

Regarding the rest, I'm keeping quiet for the moment.

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mathewi
9 months ago

Keeping quiet, Seth? I'm shocked :-)

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MG Siegler
9 months ago

Agreed Mathew and thanks for rightly catching me mostly going against the grain on this one. If Wikia Search is going to be a success it's going to be the social/communal aspects of it and I don't see how you can deem a site a failure from day one when basically neither of those are in place - at all.

I had been worried about those social aspects after seeing the initial photos where were just a Facebook total rip-off died green, but after seeing they replaced that with a relatively simple and clean-looking social layer I'm a lot more optimistic. As you said, we'll see in 6 months.

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Josh Chandler
9 months ago

I just think that Wikia isn't hitting the right market, this whole idea of community search engines is a stupid idea really. I posted my thoughts on the Wikia search engine at this post:

http://j-chandler.blogspot.com/2008/01/open-sou...

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