 This morning, Wikia is rolling out cool features on the controversial Wikia Search engine. Starting today, if you do a search on the engine and don't like the results, you'll be able to change them.
Your changes will apply not just for yourself, but rather for everybody. The engine will launch with a smallish subset of machine-indexed pages, about 30 million, which will form the baseline that Wikia Search will let users go to town on.
It's "hardly a full crawl" of the Web, admits Wikia (and Wikipedia) co-founder Jimmy Wales, but it's a start. The editing you can do on Wikia Search is extensive.
If you think a result on a search result page is too low or too high in the listings, you can influence its position by rating it.
You can delete entries entirely or hand-write new ones. You can also rewrite the text of a search result, including adding code to the result (to insert, perhaps, a site-specific search, like Google's search within search). When searching for OS9USER, it came up with no links to our News Room.
So we added it quickly and easily. See below :
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We will be monitoring our newest addition to Wikia Search , and be posting more news about Wikia Search in the future.
Watch for updates on this great story !
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This is a GREAT way to build a search engine fast.
Along with many headache's from hackers , I can't help but wonder if Wikia Search will grow fast ?
We will be watching this story for future updates ...