Jeremie Miller joins Wikia Project

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and Wikia has revealed that the creator of Jabber protocol Jeremie Miller has joined his Wikia project.

Jeremie Miller would now serve as technical lead of the open-source search project announced recently which aims to take on the existing giants in the web search market.

Wales had said about his Wikia project: “The basic concept of the search project is that I want to create a completely transparent, open-source, freely licensed search engine.”

He now added that the project would have several aspects and one of them would be related to the current works of Miller as he is working on a standard protocol that search engines or organizations with search projects could use to collaborate and exchange data.

They are also planning to make available an open search platform that anyone online can look at and contribute to. This would let them provide the details of the search engine’s algorithms and they can be improved with user inputs.

Wales added: “So we’ll have a community of people giving truly editorial feedback, where they can make a judgment that this group of search results seems wrong or add weight to this or that site depending on what they’re seeing.”