Comments on: Wales Wikia Search Beached http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/03/31/wales-wikia-search-beached/ by Stephen E. Arnold Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Charlie Hull http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/03/31/wales-wikia-search-beached/comment-page-1/#comment-47079 Charlie Hull Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:44:05 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=5589#comment-47079 I'm not desperately surprised, I'm afraid. I've been on the mailing list for Wikia development since it started, and it's been very, very quiet for a few months. I know they did some development of the Grub crawler bought from LookSmart (but actually used Yahoo's BOSS for gathering content), I know they had a prototype UI, but nothing very exciting seemed to happen apart from occasional flamewars between Jimmy Wales and Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.com about who was more 'open'. All very unedifying. I’m not desperately surprised, I’m afraid.

I’ve been on the mailing list for Wikia development since it started, and it’s been very, very quiet for a few months. I know they did some development of the Grub crawler bought from LookSmart (but actually used Yahoo’s BOSS for gathering content), I know they had a prototype UI, but nothing very exciting seemed to happen apart from occasional flamewars between Jimmy Wales and Jason Calacanis of Mahalo.com about who was more ‘open’. All very unedifying.

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