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Wikia Search opens up to unregistered web users

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has announced that their open source search engine Wikia is now open to all.

Until now, only registered members on the service had the ability to provide feedback to search results helping in improving the quality of the engine.

Now, any web user can participate in this initiative to improve the Wikia searching capabilities.

Wales said that web users would be able to rate the quality of the web pages in addition to editing the content of a search result URL.

Users would also get the ability to add annotations to web result pages by quoted text from inside the web pages.

Wales added: “It’s all the classic things that we learned from the wiki model: basically putting all that editorial control into the hands of the community so that it’s easier to do good than to do harm. That’s the basic philosophy.”

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