[Foundation-l] Wolf Mountain MediaWiki Appliances Released

Wed Jul 26 22:41:23 UTC 2006

Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>On 7/26/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 7/26/06, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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>>>And one more thing. If we are truly going to challenge google and yahoo
>>>at some point for internet search engine supremecy, this is the path to go.
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>>No real reseason to do that. In any case the Open Directory Project
>>has been going since 1998 (about the same length as google) and has
>>never really challanged for the lead position in search technology.
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>A directory isn't a search engine, so I wouldn't expect it to do so.
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>A wiki is also not a search engine... But what I think Jeff is
>thinking about isn't so much directly competing in the search space
>but instead supplanting the world wide web with the world wide wiki.
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>It is interesting to ponder the social implications of a massive
>switch to highly participatory systems like Wiki...  perhaps
>delivering on some of the promises that people used to promote
>'blogging'...  In any case, it's interesting.. but off topic.
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Greg got it ....

Jeff

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