Let’s ditch Google for a month
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is launching Wikia Search, a new search engine, on Jan. 7. Like Wikipedia, it’ll draw from crowd wisdom to produce its results. Not much has been released on how this will work exactly.
It has an advantage over Wikipedia, however, in that it won’t have to start from scratch. The site will no doubt receive a deluge of links on its launch date, and this will be a good chance for us all to be early adopters. I’m going to try my best to give it a month-long test run, though I have a feeling I’m going to resort to using Google from time to time.
It’s not that I’m against Google or anything, I think it’d just be cool to be one of the early influencers of what could potentially be a major search engine. And who knows, maybe it’ll stick.
So who’s with me?
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I’m in! The challenge will be in getting the average user to even hear about this new option. With FF and IE both offering Google searches right in the menu bar, most people will never even know there’s another alternative.
Yeah, but because it’s associated with Wikipedia, it’ll get a bigger boost than your average start-up. I wouldn’t be surprised if the website gets a few thousand links on its launch date.