According to the latest information circulating from the Wikipedia Foundation, the organization has recently been working on building the Wikipedia Search Engine, which will emerge as the biggest rival to Google search.
The information reveals that for this project a grant of $ 250.000 dollars from the Knight Foundation . The organization plans to use the money for the development of the “Knowledge Engine by Wikipedia ”- a system for finding reliable and useful information on the internet. Developers can also integrate the search engine into devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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The report has come from the founder of Wikipedia, Mr. Jimmy Wales, who mentioned the possibility of creating a search engine with the purpose of “strike” Google. Specifically he said: «To make this clear: no one from the top positions has suggested to us that the WMF should enter the field of general “search” or try to “become Google”.
However, the Knight Foundation confirmed the development of a Knowledge engine through its website.
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This move by Wikipedia is very aggressive, since Wikipedia receives the largest portion of its traffic from Google search. While the new Wikipedia search engine may not be exactly similar to Google, the organization is clearly moving towards a new direction that is more exciting but also dangerous…
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