Wikipedia Founder Plans Search Engine to Rival Google

The founder of the vastly popular Web encyclopedia Wikipedia is planning on developing Wikiasari, an Internet search engine which will compete with Yahoo and Google. In an interview with The Times of London, Jimmy Wales mentioned that his web site search engine will utilize the same user-based technology that Wikipedia uses.

You need quite a lot of confidence to try to take on a search giant, but it’s not as though Wikipedia proved a failure. The idea behind Wikiasari (that name is horrible) is that human input into the backend should be more reliable than Googles advanced algorithms. I’m looking forward to seeing this one surface.