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Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia just announced his intention to create a search engine combining Nutch and human editors. Color me a skeptic, but although Wikipedia is great this has a neon Vaporware sign painted all over it. Here are some reasons why I’m not sure it’s a good idea:
1) It’s been done before. Yahoo began […]

“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
(falsely attributed to) Charles H. Duell
Director of U.S. Patent Office, 1899
When we think of searching for information, we imagine a text box on a white page with a button next to it. Type a few words, get a list of links and snippets of web pages in a […]