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Sunday, December 24, 2006

Wikigoogle

Well not quite, but the Wikisari search engine could make quite a splash if Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Amazon.com have anything to say in the matter. Using the same basic technology as Wikipedia, and with a provisional launch date planned for the first half of 2007, will be a people-powered, network based search engine.

The name, as always, is interesting in that Wiki is Hawaiian for quick and asari is from the Japanese for rummaging search. If Wikisari can live up to being a quick rummaging search that brings in the people-powered concept then it will certainly be worth keeping an eye on. Whether it can truly challenge Google remains to be seen of course, and despite the multi-million dollar funding from Amazon.com (which has already tried and, at least when compared to the commercial success of Google, failed with its own A9 search) and a group of assorted Silicon Valley venture capitalists. As Google proved way back when, it takes more than money to change the world of search. It takes a truly revolutionary and brave approach to solving a problem.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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