Saturday, January 29, 2005

Web's Biggest Wiki Search Engine

Ross Mayfield's Weblog:
"It leverages existing search engines and scrapes the whois database.  The spider captures summaries, which is all the engine searches, which gives you easy breadth, but not depth.  The summaries are far from perfect, but it seems the idea is they are meant to be changed.  A smart hack, if legal (Andy Beal wonders if this violates whois guidelines).

Users can edit search results and must provide their email addresses to be notified when there is an edit.  Past edits are stored below.  This doesn't make it a wiki whatsoever, its closer to blog comments, but an annotated search engine isn't a bad idea.  The founding concept for Google wasn't a search engine, but developing the annotated web.  Kwiki-based Wikalong is the closest to that in the wiki world, blogs are the analog."

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