Wikia : New Search Engine

Since I’m not updated on what is happening to the search engine community I read few search engine related blogs after searching for nursing home in Europe because my sister told me to look for it. She wants to work in a nursing home this year. Anyway, going back to the topic regarding Wikia the new search engine, Jimmy Wales co-founder of Wikipedia has created a new search engine like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Since it’s new I’m expecting some flaws or bugs on the program.

I’ve tried to experiment on how their search algorithm works. And I’ve found out after searching numerous keywords and I compare it to Google, Google still produces better results. Here’s an example why Google is still much better than Wikia. Since I’m a fan of Aaron’s Blog I’ve tried to search for the keywords “SEO Book”. Here’s a screenshot how it looks like:

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The results of the search query returns seobook.com “buy now” page on top 1. I don’t think it’s a good search results if you don’t return the home page of SEOBook.com in a search results. I think because there are lot of affiliate links linking to that specific page, it returns the “buy now” page of SEOBook.com. That my own theory and Wikia staff must work on these.

I don’t really have much time in my hand, I’ll try to post more this week. Till my next post.

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