[WikiEN-l] FUTEF - Wikipedia-based search engine

Mathias Schindler mathias.schindler at gmail.com
Fri Sep 29 18:04:26 UTC 2006


On 9/29/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just been pointed to this - http://futef.com/
>
> It seems to search on keywords, and then produce a related list of
> categories for browsing as well as the keyword results. I haven't had
> much of a chance to play around with it, but it's certainly promising
> - any thoughts?

Hmmm, I played with a couple of searches on this and almost never, the
"main article" about the search came on this page first.

"google" -> first article: google bomb.
"groklaw" -> SCO vs. Reality
"Jimmy Wales" -> James

and so on. Nice concept, fast results, poor quality.

Mathias



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