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Google To Be Eaten by Wales?

He wants 5% of the market according to reports out of Tokyo
By Search News Desk
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March 17, 2007 04:30 PM EDT
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Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales has commercial designs and that three-year-old for-profit ad-based Wikia Inc venture of his is aiming to build an open source search engine to take on Google. He wants 5% of the market according to reports out of Tokyo following a speech he gave.

Wales apparently thinks that search is an essential facility and shouldn't be a "secretive black box." He's also unimpressed with Google's "super-duper rocket scientists" legend and reckons it's only trading on its name.

He's hoping for a rough test version late this year and intends to give it away, which means web sites could be tuned for high rankings.

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SEO News 03/17/07 04:40:53 PM EDT

Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales has commercial designs and that three-year-old for-profit ad-based Wikia Inc venture of his is aiming to build an open source search engine to take on Google. He wants 5% of the market according to reports out of Tokyo following a speech he gave. Wales apparently thinks that search is an essential facility and shouldn't be a 'secretive black box.' He's also unimpressed with Google's 'super-duper rocket scientists' legend and reckons it's only trading on its name.