{"id":60,"date":"2008-01-07T18:28:38","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T01:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=60"},"modified":"2008-01-07T18:28:38","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T01:28:38","slug":"wikias-open-source-social-search-alpha-is-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2008\/01\/07\/wikias-open-source-social-search-alpha-is-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikia&#8217;s open-source &#8220;social search&#8221; alpha is up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alpha.search.wikia.com\/about.html\">Wikia<\/a>&#8216;s an open-source search engine that uses community feedback to improve search results, an approach referred to as &#8216;social search&#8217;, and they<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/07\/technology\/07wiki.html\"> released their alpha version today<\/a>.   I briefly discuss the social networking aspects of this and my initial experiences <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/blog\/?p=9\">on the Tales from the Net blog<\/a> and linked out to some initial reviews and discussion.  In South Korea, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/07\/04\/business\/naver.php\">Naver dominates the market via a social search approach<\/a>; when I was at Microsoft, I strongly lobbied for the company investing in this to complement its algorithmic approaches and try to leapfrog Google rather than catching up, so I&#8217;m a big believer in the possibilities if it&#8217;s done right.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an interesting debate about Wikia&#8217;s intent to be transparent about its search algorithms and implementation: will this give the advantage to people trying to hack the system to put their site on top?  Or &#8212; because the community as a whole and responsibly-behaving web site owners all have an interest in getting the users high-quality search results &#8212; will it instead create a system where search engine optimizers and marketers (SEOs\/SEMs) are above-ground participants, and overall results are better?  Hard to know &#8230; if Wikia starts to get some traction, with luck, we&#8217;ll find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikia&#8216;s an open-source search engine that uses community feedback to improve search results, an approach referred to as &#8216;social search&#8217;, and they released their alpha version today. I briefly discuss the social networking aspects of this and my initial experiences on the Tales from the Net blog and linked out to some initial reviews and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[253,311,399],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional","category-social-computing","tag-open-source","tag-search","tag-wikia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}