Wikipedia Founder Aims to Launch Search Engine
 

The founder of the world’s most prolific reference website, Jimmy Wales, has announced plans to expand his Wikipedia empire with the launch of a search engine that is run not on algorithms but human input and intelligence.

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Re: Wikipedia Founder Aims to Launch Search Engine
 

It'll be interesting to see how he tries to combat the spam.

Yahoo's directory has become largely useless and de-emphasized because even after starting to charge for it, you cant afford to pay enough humans to stay anywhere near current and make a profit.

Dmoz also became largely useless due to the moderators ultimately all having their own agendas of spamming their shit and that of their friends.