Wired's Monkey Bites blog looks at a new way to search Wikipedia, Wikiseek:
The search engine company SearchMe has launched a new service, Wikiseek, which indexes and searches the contents of Wikipedia and those sites which are referenced within Wikipedia. Though not officially a part of Wikipedia, TechCrunch reports that Wikiseek was “built with Wikipedia’s assistance and permission”
Because Wikiseek only indexes Wikipedia and sites that Wikipedia links to, the results are less subject to the spam and SEO schemes that can clutter up Google and Yahoo search listings.
According to the Wikiseek pages, the search engine “utilizes Searchme’s category refinement technology, providing suggested search refinements based on user tagging and categorization within Wikipedia, making results more relevant than conventional search engines.”
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