From http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/04/wikipedia-found/
Jimmy Wales' open source Google killer died a quiet death.. Wikia had managed to force Google to adopt a Wikia-like feature 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.
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.
Simply put, Google knows history. Google came marching from Stanford armed with the PageRank algorithm to conquer the search engines of the late 1990s. And after it won, it made sure to become powerful enough that no young upstarts would do to it what it did to Yahoo, AltaVista, HotBot and Ask Jeeves.
Related: http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/wales-pulls-the.html
Jimmy Wales' open source Google killer died a quiet death.. Wikia had managed to force Google to adopt a Wikia-like feature 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.
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.
Simply put, Google knows history. Google came marching from Stanford armed with the PageRank algorithm to conquer the search engines of the late 1990s. And after it won, it made sure to become powerful enough that no young upstarts would do to it what it did to Yahoo, AltaVista, HotBot and Ask Jeeves.
Related: http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/wales-pulls-the.html
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