Wikia, The Wikipedia Search Engine

Wikia is a new Web Sercher. The final mission is compite with Google, but first impression are very unfortunate for wikia. Is Open Source based and its algorithm is based in social content. Is based on three Apache projects Nutch, Lucene y Hadoop. Is interesting view as Google and Wikipedia are fighting to make compite, because google will introduce a Wikipedia similar system. Really interesting the figth, I hope it will be better for the final user.

Vía: Barrapunto

Knol - A New Wikipedia by Google

Google will introduce a new web page to write articles similar to the Wikipedia. Each article will be know as Knowlegde unit, and any article can have advertising and the earn will be shared with the author. In the begining the publish system would be with invitations like gmail few month ago.

Via: El País.

Warning on Web 2.0

Few days ago a notice was published a notice, about Wikipedia. It told about wikipedia has been used to write fake articles and rewrite another true articles. Some institutions like CIA, FBI and other writes fakes in the free encyclopedia. An app called WikiScanner writed by a Hacker, allow make searchs, and discover through IP address who writes or updates the article.