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InternetNews
January 7, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Wikia Search Launches With Google in Its Sights Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales hopes Wikia's new community-powered search engine will shuffle the leader board.   |
Information Today
August 6, 2007
Paula J. Hane |
Wikia Acquires Web Crawler for New Search Engine Wikia, Inc. has acquired the distributed Web crawler Grub from LookSmart and released it under an open source license. |
Fast Company
March 15, 2007 |
The Tangled Relationship Between Jimbo Wales and Google Wikipedia depends on the search results from Google to succeed. But, how? |
Entrepreneur
June 2007
Sara Wilson |
Power to the People For the man who started Wikipedia, community control means endless opportunity. |
The Motley Fool
December 27, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
The Search Is On at Wikipedia The search giants have a new -- and important -- rival looming on the competitive landscape. For anybody invested in companies that seek to profit off Internet search, Wikiasari will be a tremendously important development to watch. |
Fast Company
March 15, 2007
Alan Deutschman |
Why Is This Man Smiling? Jimbo Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, slayer of Britannica, has a new giant in his sights: Google. And he thinks he has got a better way to search. Is he delusional -- or inspired? |
Information Today
January 14, 2008
Woody Evans |
We Find It All: Wikia's New Social Search Engine Wikia, Inc. the for-profit cousin of the Wikimedia Foundation, launched the alpha release of its new search engine, Search Wikia. |
The Motley Fool
January 8, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Wikiasari Challenges Google's Goliath Can a collaborative, user-created search engine beat Google? What does it mean to investors? |
InternetNews
April 22, 2009
David Miller |
Wikipedia's Wales Urges Ad Buyers to Get Buying Jimmy Wales makes the pitch for advertising alongside user-generated content - and takes a swipe at social media. |
InternetNews
January 29, 2008
Susan Kuchinskas |
Web Tech: Cheap And Available $500 Web sites change the game for open source search platforms. |
Reason
June 2007
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Wikipedia and Beyond Wikipedia was born as an experiment in aggregating information. But the reason it works isn't that the world was clamoring for a new kind of encyclopedia. It took off because of the robust, self-policing community it created. Despite its critics, it is transforming our everyday lives. |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2008
Tim Beyers |
A Rebel Begs for a Bailout Wikipedia's founder begs for donations to keep the encyclopedic Web site advertisement-free. |
The Motley Fool
December 30, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
A Fool Looks Back Searches and shopping set the stage for a fun walk down Wall Street this past week: Searching for money that was left on the table... Happy holidays, dot gone... |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Karen Valby |
Whatever Happened to Jimmy Wales? The Wikipedia founder spends his days on the road, spreading the gospel of the openly editable encyclopedia -- sometimes charging top dollar. |
The Motley Fool
March 26, 2007
Alyce Lomax |
Rival Whacks at Wikipedia Can Citizendium take Wikipedia down a few notches just when the Wiki universe looks to expand? |
The Motley Fool
December 20, 2005
Alyce Lomax |
Wikipedia Calls Security The online encyclopedia steps takes greater precautions following a recent controversy. Judging by some Internet trends, that step can't come too soon. |
The Motley Fool
December 6, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Amazon Pays for Wiki Wisdom The e-tailer, seeking users' input, invests in online collaboration. |
InternetNews
November 3, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Scammers Use Wikipedia To Distribute Virus The downside to a site anyone can edit is someone can put up a link to a virus, too. |
Inc.
May 2007
Max Chafkin |
Search for Tomorrow An army of fledgling companies is lining up to take on Google. Could the world's biggest search engine possibly be vulnerable? |
Information Today
January 7, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Google Knol: The "Grassy Knoll" for Publishers or Just Wikipedia? Mainstream press and leading blogs immediately saw Knol as the launch of a Google offensive against Wikipedia. But a closer look at the model indicates an author-centric orientation that would better fit a strategy of building Google into a powerhouse publisher. |
InternetNews
December 7, 2005
Erin Joyce |
Wikipedia And The Truth Troops The community-driven, Internet encyclopedia, Wikipedia, needs to do more than check anonymous editors at the site's door. |
Search Engine Watch
October 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Mapping Places in Wikipedia Wikipedia is a high quality online source of information, but does not do a good job displaying images or maps. Placeopedia attempts to fill that gap by mapping Wikipedia location entries on Google maps. |
Wired
March 2005
Daniel H. Pink |
The Book Stops Here Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the Internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created Wikipedia. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Elizabeth Svoboda |
One-Click Content, No Guarantees Should you trust Wikipedia, the world's first user-generated encyclopedia? |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 23, 2007
Sean Silverthorne |
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn't) Harvard Business School professors conduct a case study on how online cultures are made and maintained, the power of self-policing organizations, the question of whether the service is drifting from its core principles, and whether a Wikipedia-like concept can work in a business setting. |
Searcher
May 2011
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Voluntary Perils Ahead? Is the voluntary impulse behind so many excellent sites just a passing fad? Will Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales wake up one morning musing on how much nicer it might be to live like the Prince of Wales? |
