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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 --- 78 days ago http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Centernetworks-/~3/303710332/wikia-updates-wikia-
 Editor's note: The news below was embargoed for 9am today but it has already been posted on several outlets so we will post now per our embargo policy. Back in January, Wikia launched the Alpha version of Wikia Search . We said it "wasn't ready". Last month they made some major additions to the engine. Today they are rolling out the next Alpha version of the engine. I've embedded a video below that explains the updates. So far the company claims 20,000 users have registered, 25,000 mini-articles created, and 60,000 edits have been processed to-date. I spoke with CEO Jimmy Wales who explained the updates to the alpha search engine. Wales noted that many of the new features are "wiki-like" and that you can now edit any search result as you see fit. Add, delete or update any link within a search result. You can also annotate, or preview, a URL in the search result. There's also the ability to highlight a site in the results if you feel it's worthy. Here's the search result for CenterNetworks . Note the logos up in the header and rated pages. One interesting thing to try out -- scroll to the bottom of the page, watch how it adds more results on the fly with no pagination. I've never seen this before. Here are all of the new features inside of the Wikia Search which allow anyone to customize the search results: The ability to edit any result, title and summary. The edits are then instantly available to everyone The ability to add new re ... |
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