Tag: WIKIASARI

We've been hearing bits and pieces of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' big plans for a search engine for a while now. But it's never been entirely clear how this human-powered search engine would look. Would it be more like Google or Mahalo? South African blogger Matthew Buckland raises a third option that we hadn't considered. It could look a lot like Facebook. Last night Wales showed a few ...

Remember how we told you a few weeks ago that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Whales was working on a new search engine called Wikiasari? Yeah, that's still not ready yet. But California-based SearchMe has launched a new search engine based on Wikipedia. It's called Wikiseek, and not only does it search Wikipedia sites, but it also indexes sites that are referenced in Wikipedia articles. When you perform ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is preparing to launch a search engine. The Times of London reports that the new search engine will be called Wikiasari, combining the Hawaiian word "wiki" which means quick with the Japanese "asari," which means rummaging search. Wales is basing Wikiasari (which Techcrunch reports had initially been billed as Wikisearch) as an improvement upon the traditional search ...