Most of us consider Wikipedia to be the ultimate online knowledge base or encyclopedia. I always use Wikipedia for Celebrity information, games and other technical stuff that I don't know. The next best thing after Wikipedia is obviously Google....
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Wikia, selective wiki hosting service founded by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, has now received a major makeover. Now, the site has been launched with an improved design and some cool new features too. Wikia is basically is a collection of...
You have been surely living in caves if you use internet and haven't used Wikipedia till date. The free content online encyclopedia is written collaboratively by volunteers and the vast majority of its articles can be edited by anyone. Anyhow, if you...
We have earlier talked about some Google-killer and now, Tech magazine Fast Company has described Jimbo Wales as 'Google's Worst Nightmare.' The man, who has make Wikipedia such a great success has already revealed his plans to roll out a new search...
Critics have questioned Wikipedia's reliability and accuracy for a long time. The site has also been criticized for its vulnerability to sabotage, jagged quality, and discrepancies. The biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet is...
Wired News and Assignment.net together have launched Assignment Zero, the site that endeavors to bring together the professional and amateur talent. They are calling the undertaking 'pro am journalism' as it is a mix of some formatting and freestyling...
Last month, we were sniffing the possibility of some 'Google Killer' in the near future and we did talk about the Jimmy Wales' new search engine dubbed Search Wikia that is slated to debut later this year. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has revealed...
After a tenured professor of religious studies was found to be using a sham identity, the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has now revealed its plans to ask the active contributors to identify themselves. Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales has already...
Wikipedia is these days prone to an immense predicament because a student from Kentucky (aged around 20) pretended to be a professor of religious studies and noticeably than 20,000 amendments to contentious topics on the online info bank.
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Although the online search market is dominated by the big three, including Google, Yahoo!, and MSN but there are many others too in the race. For me, Google is the unbiased leader in online search and I am sure many of you will agree with me.
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A post on Trendhunter reads 'Wikipedia's Gets Dirty - World's Most Innocent Encyclopedia is Adding Porn.' Well, they are talking about the WikiProject Porn Stars that enriches the readers with the news about the porn stars.
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Wiki software, the prime technology behind the big Wikipedia has now been used by British publisher Penguin in an attempt to create a web-based, shared novel dubbed 'A Million Penguins' that can be written, edited or read by anyone online. Penguin has...
Legal system in USA has warmed his heart to Wikipedia as The New York Times is reporting that more and more judges are using the Wikipedia to find the reference material but still are weary as there are issues of accuracy and reliability.
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Don't confuse with WikiSeek. It is not the search engine we are looking for from Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia. Let me clear that WikiSeek is not Wikiasari, which Jimmy Wales talked about last fortnight. Some of the writers (I don't like to...
Qatar has earned the wrath of Wikipedia as the latter has banned the people of the country from editing or loading any entry in Wikipedia due to what Wikipedia says excessive spam and wreckage of the content.
This country of about 1 million people...
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