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February 02, 2005

A Wiki Search Engine or Bottom-up Extortion?

It is hard for me to keep on top of things these days. Thanks to the crew at many2many I find things like this...

Many-to-Many: A Wiki Search Engine or Bottom-up Extortion?

This is pretty interesting.¬Ý Web’Äôs Biggest not only claims to be the biggest search engine, but the biggest wiki.¬Ý


It leverages existing search engines and scrapes the whois database.¬Ý The spider captures summaries, which is all the engine searches, which gives you easy breadth, but not depth.¬Ý The summaries are far from perfect, but it seems the idea is they are meant to be changed.¬Ý A smart hack, if legal (Andy Beal wonders if this violates whois guidelines).

Posted by jason at February 2, 2005 08:09 AM

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