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saved byMichel Roland on 2007-11-16

  • “It’s not a healthy thing that power is in the hands of a couple of companies… the information needs to be out there in the public and people involved,” Wales said to the gathering in Johannesburg. Described as Google’s worst nightmare by Fast Company, Wales intends to take on the Googles of the world by making his new search project a collaborative effort much like Wikipedia.
  • I don’t think any human-powered search could ever come close to touching Google’s marketshare (Mahalo or something from Wikia). Google is just too good at what it does, and is constantly improving.  That isn’t to say that human-powered search engines don’t have their place as valuable research tools, but in the heirchy of discovery and search, they will always fall into the same category as Wikipedia: mostly supplemental.
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