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Wikia Announces Great New Search Features
Since then, the Wikia Search project, which is creating a new search platform founded on open-source search protocols and human collaboration, has seen some 20000 registered users make nearly 60000 edits to search results and write …
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Wikia Search human powered search engine becomes useful
Up until this week, Wikia Search was basically just like any other search engine. A computer scanned the web for pages and decided which were the closest match to your search query. The only thing setting Wikia Search apart was the …
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User Participation Drives Retooled Wikia Search Engine7 hours ago
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has launched a new version of Wikia Search, a search engine based on the notion that communities of people can produce better search results than Google's sophisticated algorithms. …
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Wikia Search Starts Making Sense
Now, the concept behind Wikia Search can finally be seen in the actual product. Starting today, you can now edit search results, add annotations, spotlight the result you deem most relevant, add your comments and delete entries - just …
Mashable! - http://mashable.com

User Participation Drives Retooled Wikia Search Engine - Yahoo! News
User Participation Drives Retooled Wikia Search Engine - Yahoo! News One concern with a community-based system is that users will try to “game the system,” deleting references to competitors or engaging in trash talk in the comments. …
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Wikia Search Invites Users to Stir the Pot
Wikia has a different idea of how a search engine should operate: Humans should be involved. Toward that end, it has retooled its fledgling open source Wikia Search tool to allow users to collaborate on refining results. …
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Wikia: Open Search, Open Source
You may not have heard of Wikia Search before. A relatively new project from the Wikipedia folks, they've entered the search-engine fray with an attitude that is just about as open as it is possible to be. Not only is their underlying …
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Why I Like The New Wikia Search
Jimmy Wales started the Wiki craze and Wikipedia has always been the epitome of open source, a community of developers coming together to make something great. When Wikia Search first launched in Alpha mode, users did not appear to be …
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Wikia Search Adds New Index and Updates Social Features
Today Wikia Search (or referred to as Search Wikia, depending if you’re reading their logo or title), the search engine based on the idealism of Wikipedia and the fundamentals of social search, released a statement that the engine has …
TechMacro - http://www.techmacro.com

Wikia Search - The Hackable search engine
So we added it quickly and easily. See below : (click on image to enlarge) We will be monitoring our newest addition to Wikia Search , and be posting more news about Wikia Search in the future. Watch for updates on this great story ! …
OS9USER News Room - http://os9user.blogspot.com/

Genealogy Creating a Surname Web Page
Choosing a Domain Name To set up your own personal website is not hard to do and it can be fun and free. First, you need to choose a domain name. If you are using it for family history/genealogy, then you need the name to reflect this. …
Crafts and Travel - http://craftsandtravel.blogspot.com/

Free Genealogy is Not Always Worth It
It seems to me that some people get offended at the thought of paying for genealogy. Why is it that a researcher should not be able to make a living while helping you out at the same time? As far as I can see, genealogists should not be …
Annabelles Blog - http://annabellesblog661.fluxustv.com

Potentially Fraudulent Sites Posing as Genealogy Websites
We have recently become aware of three websites purporting to allow family history research: SearchYourGenealogy.com, Ancestry-search.com and Australian-Ancestry.com. The sites claim to have “the largest online genealogical search tool” …
Ancestry.com Blog - http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry

Saiba a origem de seu sobrenome pela Internet
Nome e sobrenome são a nossa primeira noção de pertencer. Cravados em documentos, localizam a gente na família, na geografia e na história do planeta. Qual a biografia do Cavalcanti, do Silva, do Souza, do Almeida? …
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5-year statistics for Ancestry.com traffic
After I posted yesterday's graphs showing Ancestry and Rootsweb traffic for the last month, I checked the 5-year charts also. The Reach, Rank and PageViews charts for http://www.ancestry.com/, http://www.rootsweb.com/, …
Genea-Musings - http://randysmusings.blogspot.com/

WorldVitalRecords.com Ranked #10 Most Popular Genealogy Site For 2008
Kory Meyerink recently gave a presentation on the 50 Most Popular Genealogy Web Sites at the Conference on Computerized Family History and Genealogy. WorldVitalRecords.com was ranked number 10 on this list! Ranking Criteria …
WorldVitalRecords Blog - http://blog.worldvitalrecords.com

News From the BYU Computerized Genealogy Conference
Family Tree Magazine’s contributing editor and technology guru Rick Crume crashed the Brigham Young University Computerized Genealogy Conference last weekend in Provo, Utah. He reports more than 700 attendees absorbed nearly 100 …
Genealogy Insider - http://www.familytreemagazine.com/insider/

Ancestry's "Bad Baby Names" book
Ancestry.com Census Collection Fuels Tongue-in-Cheek Look At 'Bad Baby Names' Parents Have Given Their Children BAD BABY NAMES By Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback Published by Ancestry Publishing PROVO, Utah, March 12 /PRNewswire/ …
DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Blog - http://blog.dearmyrtle.com/

Genealogy is a hobby the whole family can enjoy!
Genealogy is a rewarding hobby for history buffs. Not only do you seek and find your ancestors, but the research brings history alive. I began my research as a teenager with the goal of finding the original immigrant to America in each …
Shannon's Hometown Blog - http://activerain.com/blogs/shannondrew