One Step Backwards Wiki Search
One Step Backwards with Wiki Search
Wikipedia.org is trying to use free labor to take on Google.com and create a new search engine.
I remember hoping, begging, and praying that Yahoo.com allowed me in their index. I am so happy Google.com put them old miserable days behind. Yahoo.com tried to collect 269 dollars and then would not say, 100 percent you will be included in their directory, what a bad idea.
The proven principle of the internet that works,
is allow anyone to play with your toys.
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Bangkok Thailand - Southeast Asia
Khao San Road
Tuesday, January 7, 2008
Andy of HoboTraveler.com --- Submit Hotel URL
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Open Source is not the same as Open to anyone.
I laugh at the Internet, when I first start in pure HTMl, I had to make a perfect code page or it did not work.
The Microsoft explorer improved and bad code, looked good, now with Firefox, back to the same, bad code look bad. Not everyone is an expert.
Now, Wiki wants to say, I need permission by them to get in their directory.
Reminds me of Yahoo.com and their crash, history does repeat.
I love the Wikipedia.org encyclopedia, however I keep laughing,
I cannot post something as an expert traveler. I need citations.
- Therefore, I will write a book someday, whereby I can quote myself as fact, and both ways, they are not fact.. hehehe -
This link cannot be the one I am supposed to bookmark, but the only one that is clearly a search. What will I need to do, bookmark later when they decide they are going to make it.
http://alpha.search.wikia.com/
One Step Backwards Wiki Search
posted by Andy HoboTraveler.com at 12:30 AM
2 Comments:
The WikiMedia Foundation [wikimedia.org], of which Wikipedia is one (and the best known) projects, includes Wikibooks [wikibooks.org], Wiktionary [wiktionary.org], and many more...
Wikia isn't any of those.
Wikia is a project of Wikia, Inc. [wikia.com] ...the two have nothing to do with each other, other than the fact that Wikia search will almost certainly index Wikipedia and Wikipedia will almost certainly have an entry for Wikia search.
That is to say...
Wikia [wikia.com] is not the same thing as Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], even though Jimmy Wales is centrally involved in both.
(as pulled from other posts talking on the subject)
Jimmy Wales
Often a big company will encourage a University to apply for a grant from the US Government. Then the USA taxpayers pay for the research project, the corporation use the data to make a lot of money.
Answers.com is hooked onto WikiPedia at the hip.
On topic though, I do not vote wish, or hope to have a bunch of Nerd in Germany decide what is allowed or not allowed in a search engine. All sites should be allowed, whether I like it or not.
Open source often means, permission to steal.
I was at the Wikipedia convention in Frankfurt. An attorney would could sue these guys to high heavon for conspiracy to steal copyrighted materials.
Big lectures on how to take photos in museums where photos are not allowed. etc
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