Acquisitions

It’s strange how the Internet changes every day and changes our lives too. It’s become a place for business, for finding information, meeting friends, or advertise whatever you want to sell. It’s also a place where idealists meet and come up with new ways to make this world a better place. Such a man is Jim Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, an encyclopedia with articles written and edited by a community of volunteers and is therefore, free. Wales now intends to release a search engine also based on a community’s input, because he thinks the results from this type of site selection would be much more relevant. He wants the engine to be called Search Wikia and has already employed the help of people like Jeremie Miller, the creator of Jabber, to create a platform for different search engines to work together. It’s not sure whether Wikia is intended to be specialized in certain areas, or will deliver general results, and it’s also unclear how Mr. Wales will keep the results correct and relevant, or how many people will be interested in taking the time to review hundreds of millions of websites. Because the founder’s ambition is high: he wants to rival Google, so he needs many results for each search. Still, he is aware that this type of endeavor will take a while to become popular and that it won’t be of much importance from the beginning. Wikia will be released in the fourth quarter of this year and has recently acquired its very own Web crawler called Grub from LookSmart Ltd.

related story: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135171-c,searchengines/article.html

by Corina Ciubotaru for SigEx Telecom (http://sigex.com)

SigEx Telecom is quickly becoming the leading telebroadcasting communications provider allowing people to easily talk, view, upload and share video clips through free online TV broadcasting, free unlimited global calls, websites, blogs, video-mails and SMS. SigEx Telecom captures many add-on services for its clients generating royalties and fees in a broad spectrum of marketing services including public relations and promotions.