Apr 7, 2009
This is the funniest thing i saw in the past 3 months :D
thought to share it with you guys.
please click on the image below to view the enlarged thumbnail from the source. and keep your comments :-)
Apr 4, 2009
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' open source, human-powered Google killer died a quiet death Tuesday, making Wikia.com the latest object lesson in the futility of trying to unseat Google as the king of search engines.
Even though the site lasted barely a year, Wales should not feel badly about pulling the plug on his ambitious attempt to harness the power of the crowds to take down Google and force search algorithms to become more transparent.
In fact, Wikia even managed to force Google to adopt a Wikia-like feature in November that solicits user opinions on whether search results are relevant.
But, the reality is that no one can kill Google, and its search box is going to rule for many more years. It employs 20,000 of the world's most intelligent people and rakes in billions yearly. It has a squadron of other products from YouTube to Gmail that insinuate the company's technology deep into its users' lives. It runs the net's best data centers, something that any true competitor would need hundreds of millions to come close to matching.
While it may be little comfort, Wikia has well-esteemed neighbors in the search engine graveyard.
Amazon's attempt to build a successful search engine called A9 failed, and its former head Udi Manber is now a vice president at Google. Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com all continue to struggle to maintain what's left of the search pie after Google grabs its 60-something percent. Technorati, the blog search engine, has been all but abandoned by web users….
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