Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
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Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
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Re: Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
#2The grant amount is $250,000
Re: Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
#3The grant amount is $250,000
Correct. As per page 9 the most of the budget allocated for the project comes from wikimedia themselves, totaling 2,445,873.00 USD in for the fiscal year 2015-2016.
Re: Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
#4This is a very, very, very small amount of money if you want to build a search engine, let alone one "to rival Google" (source?). Looks like the goals are realistic, though - look how wikipedia search could be extended beyond results from wikipedia.org, build some test sets. And get a better idea what it really is that is supposed to be built.
Re: Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
#5Re: Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
#6This is a very, very, very small amount of money if you want to build a search engine, let alone one "to rival Google" (source?). Looks like the goals are realistic, though - look how wikipedia search could be extended beyond results from wikipedia.org, build some test sets. And get a better idea what it really is that is supposed to be built.
Google started with less, and so almost every project on the internet.
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#7Given the terrible state of advertising, I would welcome a search engine that penalizes pages with popovers, animated ads, auto playing audio, and so on. Google would never build this, given its business model.
I hope Wikipedia brings some innovation to search, untethered from advertising revenue.
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#8This is a link to the actual pdf:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/a7/Knowl...
Re: Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
#9I don't know how should I feel about all those donation campaigns they usually do after this.
Re: Wikipedia starts work on $2.5M internet search engine project to rival Google [pdf]
#10Given the terrible state of advertising, I would welcome a search engine that penalizes pages with popovers, animated ads, auto playing audio, and so on. Google would never build this, given its business model. I hope Wikipedia brings some innovation to search, untethered from advertising revenue.
Google does do this AFAIK. They dont get any money when people turn on adblock and have always leaned towards simple ads as well as filtering out sites with crummy ux in search