On October 7th, 654381US time, JimmyWales, the 42-year-old founder of Wikipedia, officially released the Wikipedia search service.
Unlike Wikipedia's obscurity when it was born seven years ago, Wikipedia has attracted much attention since Wells publicly mentioned it in July last year. Everyone wants to know whether this wiki search, which is different from the traditional search engine, will shake the position of Google and Yahoo. In this regard, Wells cautiously stated that he only introduced online encyclopedia collaboration into the search field, at least in the short term, and would not threaten the current mainstream search engines. Is that so?
Not surprisingly, although many languages, including Chinese, are not yet available, people who have used Wikipedia search will obviously feel different. If the search content cannot be found, the webpage will remind the user to "help", that is, write a short essay: briefly describe the key words, such as definitions, synonyms, reference essays, pictures, etc. In this way, other users will have richer results when they search again in the future. It's a bit like Wikipedia, which is inherited.
Three days after the launch of Wiki Search, the American online magazine InfoWeekly published an article expressing many users' dissatisfaction with Wiki Search, but this was completely expected by Wells. As a search engine, especially one that needs a large number of users to participate, wiki search needs time to provide relevant search results. Wells said: "Don't expect Wikipedia to provide search results comparable to Google from the beginning. It's simply impossible." 20048+10.7 is' 2007070705.
Wells is a cool guy. When he launched Wikipedia on 200 1, few people spoke highly of this "online encyclopedia". All the 32 volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica worth 1250 USD (about 9000 RMB) were online. 1999.
In fact, this inspiration was hard to realize before he met ward cunningham. Wells was born in finance and received his doctorate in economics from Indiana University. His research direction is option pricing. When Cunningham, an American, was still at home in Chicago's foreign exchange market, he developed a community collaborative writing technology to browse, create and change texts on the Web, and named it wiki, which means "Hurry up!"
In 200 1 year, Wells turned wiki technology into Wikipedia, and the English version of Wikipedia was officially published on 1.05 that year. In just one month, the number of Wikipedia entries reached 200, and one year later it increased to 18000. In September 2004, the number of Wikipedia entries reached 65438.
After a long time, Wikipedia has shown great value. Wells built Wikipedia into a well-known network information source with community influence. He said: "Wikipedia didn't have anything at first. After seven years of development, Wikipedia has become the eighth largest website in the Internet field. If users have a sense of ownership, they will continue to use this tool, which is the direction we should work hard. "
Looking back on the history of Wikipedia, people can't underestimate every step of Wells' exploration. In 2004, he founded a profit-making company, WikiaInc (Wikipedia is not for profit), which provided a software platform for anyone to build a wiki system. Wikisearch is one of the company's projects. Wells didn't expect to challenge Google before entering the search field. But he has his own plan: to change the way users search online.
Wikipedia140,000 USD funding list seems to mean that the industry is very optimistic about this search engine: Amazon (providing10,000 USD), BessemerVenturePartners and NetscapeCommunications. MarcAndreesen, one of the founders, ReidHoffman, one of the founders of LinkedIn, the sixth largest social networking site in the United States, and MitchKapor, one of the founders of LotusDevelopment and ElectronicFrontierFoundation.