Google Killer Beta Beta

The developers of the new generation of search engine Wikia announced the start of closed testing. Universal attention is riveted on this project because its founder is Jimmy Wales, who had a hand in creating Wikipedia. An ambitious entrepreneur has repeatedly stated that a new project can become just as successful, or even surpass Wikipedia in popularity. Interestingly, the press began to write about the "revolutionary" search engine a year ago, when it existed only on paper.

Yesterday, Jimmy Wales went to the IRC channel and told like-minded people happy news that the testing project will begin in the very next days, before the end of this year. At first it will be closed, but already on January 7, the beta version will open to everyone. Just a month ago, 1000 servers were brought and installed in the Wikia data center (in the photo taken on November 30, the servers are unloaded from the truck) - and now the system is ready for operation.

The uniqueness of Wikia is that this search engine is based on open search protocols with open source codes, with human participation, in some way copying the Wikipedia model. When the search engine was acquired in August 2007, the source texts of the crawler and other modules were immediately published on the Internet - this is the principle of openness.

via CenterNetworks