Wikipedia to topple Google, Yahoo in three years
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to launch an internet search engine in December. And Wales is bullish - he reckons that Wikia Search will be ready to beat ...
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Wikipedia to topple Google, Yahoo in three years
PC Advisor, UK -12 minutes ago
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to launch an internet search engine in December. And Wales is bullish - he reckons that Wikia Search will be ready to beat ...
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Posted by Gregory Kohs on September 6, 2007 :
How about this concern: Wikipedia (after close to 7 years) still doesn't have an article about each of the Fortune 1000 companies. How will Wikia Search POSSIBLY compete with the comprehensive breadth of Google or Yahoo?
I will eat 2 pounds of liverwurst in one sitting, if by August 2010 we see Wikia Search with even 33% of either the traffic or revenues of either Yahoo or Google.
Jimmy Wales and his investors (Amazon, Bessemer Venture, etc.) are smoking some really strong stuff.
How about this concern: Wikipedia (after close to 7 years) still doesn't have an article about each of the Fortune 1000 companies. How will Wikia Search POSSIBLY compete with the comprehensive breadth of Google or Yahoo?
I will eat 2 pounds of liverwurst in one sitting, if by August 2010 we see Wikia Search with even 33% of either the traffic or revenues of either Yahoo or Google.
Jimmy Wales and his investors (Amazon, Bessemer Venture, etc.) are smoking some really strong stuff.
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