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Search Wikia Debuts To Mild Reviews

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The ambitious project by Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales, dubbed a Google challenger in search, elicited a tepid response from reviewers.

Wikipedia took time to ramp up to its position today, and its looks like plantar fascitis That link to the painful foot condition returns a first page of search results from Search Wikia's available resources. Some topics may have a "mini article" created about them, which would appear atop the results, but plantar fascitis doesn't have one yet.

Of its first ten search results, only the fifth one links to a credible resource, eMedicine at WebMD. All of the other nine links go to sites of various commercial interests.

Search Wikia's results will eventually allow people to rate the links. Doing a mouseover of a link present a group of five stars, which one can click to provide a rating. But doing that at this time returns a message, 'Sorry, these don't actually do anything yet :( '.

As an alpha product, Wales and company likely do not expect a lot of great comments about Search Wikia yet.

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