The advent of 2008 brings with it the promise of serious developments in the field of internet search provision. Could this possibly be the year that Google becomes old news?
…Well the answer is; probably not, though a revolution is definitely brewing if you ask Jimmy Wales (creator of Wikipedia), who recently announced the launch of his next big project: Wikia Search - a new search tool offering only 100% relevant, spam free, verified results. Along with Mahalo.com (a similar search tool launched a few months earlier), Wikia Search is basically an attempt to build a perfect search engine, immune to error or mis-interpretation of content. The main point lies in the fact that Wikia Search is not strictly a search ‘engine’ but instead more of a quasi-human search assistant, relying on human, rather than software, interpretation of content to produce its results. Unlike Google, both Mahalo and Wikia Search return exclusively humanly verified, relevant links, compiled by a community of users hand-tailoring results pages for common search terms.