"If we can get good quality search results, I think it will really change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers."
The whole idea behind the concept is that automated algorithms will find bulk results by crawling the web and then human editors are going to moderate and sort results in order to obtain the most relevant answers for search queries.
Wikia already managed to raise from external sources alone US $14 million (a bit more than 10.2 million Euros,) so it has both the resources and the concept necessary to make this project work. And if they succeed, Google, Yahoo! and other big search engines should beware.Joyce M. Richard writes articles on topics such as Top 10 Wikipedia Tricks and Wikipedia the English Version Hits 2000000 Articles Visit Wikipedia endangers Google’s popularity as a search engine.
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