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InternetNews
July 27, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Wikia Goes The Way of Open Source Search Wikipedia founder acquires Grub search crawler for Wikia.   |
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
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. |
Entrepreneur
June 2007
Sara Wilson |
Power to the People For the man who started Wikipedia, community control means endless opportunity. |
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? |
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? |
InternetNews
January 29, 2008
Susan Kuchinskas |
Web Tech: Cheap And Available $500 Web sites change the game for open source search platforms. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
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... |
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? |
InternetNews
December 14, 2007 |
Google Site May Challenge Wikipedia Google's user-edited "knol" project is in testing, but one day could represent a rival to the space's reigning champ. |
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. |
InternetNews
April 7, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Adds Answers, Augments Maps The search leader introduces new functions as features war with Yahoo and MSN rages on. |
Information Today
February 22, 2010 |
Wikimedia Foundation Announces $2 Million Grant From Google This is the Wikimedia Foundation's first grant from Google. The funds will support core operational costs of the Wikimedia Foundation. |
Search Engine Watch
January 31, 2008
Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketers' Wish Lists, Part 2 Predictions of the future of Internet marketing from several search marketers and social media marketers. |
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. |
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. |
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
March 19, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Mahalo Testing The Opinion-Driven Algorithm Founder of niche search site joins a growing chorus looking to take search beyond the algorithm. |
Searcher
March 2006
Paula Berinstein |
Wikipedia and Britannica: The Kid's All Right (And So's the Old Man) Can the public concoct and maintain a free, authoritative encyclopedia that's unbiased, complete, and reliable? |
The Motley Fool
December 6, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Amazon Pays for Wiki Wisdom The e-tailer, seeking users' input, invests in online collaboration. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 16, 2007
Mac Greer |
Finding Gold Online An interview with Don Tapscott, the author of 10 books, including the recently published Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything on how the Web is moving beyond social networking. |
The Motley Fool
March 31, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Wikipedia vs. the World With Google's Knol, Yahoo! Answers, and Answers.com's WikiAnswers, the number of sites looking to cash in on the Web 2.0 movement of user-created reference content is growing exponentially. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 18, 2012
Anders Bylund |
10 Things I Think About the Wikipedia Blackout Wikipedia fights fire with fire. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Elizabeth Svoboda |
One-Click Content, No Guarantees Should you trust Wikipedia, the world's first user-generated encyclopedia? |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Why Wikipedia Will Win Save for the core search engine that launched the business, Google has a checkered history when it comes to displacing incumbents in the industries it enters. Will it be the same for Knol, Google's answer to Wikipedia? |
BusinessWeek
January 6, 2011
Drake Bennett |
Assessing Wikipedia, Wiki-Style, on Its 10th Anniversary How the online "temple of the mind" became the go-to site for looking stuff up: A drama told in the open-source style of Wikipedia. |
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. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
It's On: Wikimedia Sues The NSA The Wikimedia Foundation, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, is suing the U.S. National Security Agency in a bid to challenge mass surveillance of Internet communications, Reuters reports. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Think Wikipedia Is Sexist? They Want To Pay You To Help Change That A United Nations University study from 2010 found that only 13% of Wikipedia's editors are female, while other surveys have yielded an even lower number. |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2012
Christina Chaey |
4 Ways The New Wikidata Will Improve Wikipedia The Wikimedia Foundation completes its first phase of development for Wikidata in August. The database will help streamline Wikipedia content by focusing on facts and figures, cutting out subjectivity, and increasing transparency. |
Information Today
August 9, 2010
Woody Evans |
Facebook Questions & Ask.com: Cashing in on Mass Ignorance Indicators point toward a substantive change in the tone of the web, along the lines of the paradigm shift from directories to search engines. Two recent developments typify this change at Facebook Questions and Ask.com. |
Search Engine Watch
March 22, 2005
Mary Ellen Bates |
Just the Facts, Please While the major search engines continue to dabble with shortcuts to reference sources, Wikipedia and Answers.com have quietly evolved into two of the most comprehensive online search resources for quick, free and reliable ready reference information. |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006
Michael J. Miller |
People of the Year Second Life isn't the first virtual community, but it is one of the most popular. Founded by Philip Rosedale in 2003, it recently reached its one millionth resident. |
