Comments on: Why SEOs Will Kill Wikia Search

By: Utah SEO

Utah SEO — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:47:05 +0000

I think they are going to have a hard time delivering quality in this format, which is what keeps everyone searching Google-it delivers the best search results. The more difficult it is to “game” the more it causes even spammers to rise to new levels.

By: MB Web Design

MB Web Design — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:57:31 +0000

You hit one out of the park with Wikipedia Jimmy, but leave search to Big G.

By: Utah SEO

Utah SEO — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:34:34 +0000

I wrote a piece about wikia search but i think this might be a good thing if they some how figure out how to weal out the black hat techniques which people may practice

By: Utah SEO

Utah SEO — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:46:17 +0000

I’ve been highly disappointed with Wikia Search thus far. They have definitely launched premature. Too bad. You can count on SEOs trying to game anything new that comes out.

By: Yuwie

Yuwie — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:38:54 +0000

Not impressed..Thought I’d try it out, maybe even post some links or wiki articles, but could not even get it to work. But I’ll try again in a few months to see where they are at. (If they are still around).

By: The Reitz Report

The Reitz Report — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:30:30 +0000

I tried to sign up for an account, but keep getting errors. Same on search results. I think they may have been a bit premature.

By: Free One-Way Links

Free One-Way Links — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:24:55 +0000

Pretty rough, but you’ve got to get the word out sometime. Give them a chance to develop. I’m sure a lot of negatives spawn from other web players who don’t want to lose control of any share and their minions.

By: dave mancuso

dave mancuso — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:59:39 +0000

mike arrington is the bestower of all tech reputations? are you for frigging real? the guy’s a illiterate blowhard and his blog site it shite. please. if i want real insight, i’ll stick with mossberg, pogue or cnet.

By: Free Motorola RAZR V3

Free Motorola RAZR V3 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:40:30 +0000

Part of me wants them to achieve some level of success, but I just cannot see that happening.

Karl A. Krogmann

By: Bill Scott SEO Expert

Bill Scott SEO Expert — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:21:20 +0000

I hope someone, someday builds a better search platform. I don’t think SEO Black Hatters will kill Wikia Search “it’s doing fine on it’s own!”

I tried looking up scottsdale homes the results urg …

I do admire the programming knowledge and time it takes to develop such a project. But How does it make you money?!?

By: Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:34:28 +0000

People will always try to make any system work for them, sometimes using more than “questionable” approaches, but somehow, I kind of get a “people will try to take advantage of our system, we’ll try to stop them but who knows…”-vibe from these guys.

Alan Johnson

By: Matt Elshaw

Matt Elshaw — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:19:11 +0000

Interesting Review. The first thing I thought when I saw the ranking score was “people are going to game this” At least I wasnt the only one

By: DavePress » links for 2008-01-08

DavePress » links for 2008-01-08 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:41:33 +0000

[...] Why SEOs Will Kill Wikia Search “When you launch a new search engine, admitting defeat at the outset isn’t exactly a promising start. Jimmy Wales founder of Wikia Search–which launches today–did just that.” (tags: seo wikia search) [...]

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:14:03 +0000

@John – before you know it, there’ll be two referrals from Ask!

By: john andrews

john andrews — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:02:37 +0000

I was abut to say your comment about “the market share of Ask” was ridiculous, as Ask has no market share. But then I second guessed myself and checked my traffic logs, and sure enough, I got a visitor from Ask a few days ago. Dang, Pilgrim, you’re way ahead of me. Keep up the good work!

By: Alan Johnson

Alan Johnson — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:50:09 +0000

I honestly can’t understand their “we are not the best, but feel free to use us”-attitude. Why would people use them if they don’t even have enough confidence in their own project?

Alan Johnson

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:37:18 +0000

I toyed around with it for a little bit and I must say the results are worse than MSN-LIVE-Microsoft-XBOX-Zune.coms’ search engine if you can believe that.

I am going to go ahead and call this a “fail”.

By: Mike Tekula

Mike Tekula — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:09:15 +0000

I don’t think this “open algorithm” is going to have much of an effect on the industry at all. The idea that allowing people to push rankings around in a direct way is going to create a usable search tool is ridiculous to me. The reason Google is Google is because their results are relevant and increasingly difficult, or nearly impossible, to game. This is the opposite.

My prediction: this is nothing more than laugh-worthy.

By: GoWFB

GoWFB — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:47:38 +0000

Well, i thought it is a search engine related to wikipedia, but it is not. If any search engines want to beat Google, it got to give better search results, that’s the bottom line.

By: Baher

Baher — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:35:44 +0000

It will be interesting to watch the effect of open algorithm on the industry, they will be experimenting for all of us.