Wikipedia develops a search engine without advertisement against Google

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The Wikipedia Foundation, which runs the free encyclopedia "Wikipedia" that anyone can edit, will find "Knowledge Engine by WikipediaIt seems that Google has come up to the world of search engines overwhelmingly superior.

It is clear that the development budget is about 2.4 million dollars (about 270 million yen) and was awarded 25,000 dollars (about 2.84 million yen) from September 2015 from the John · S & James · L · Knight Foundation It is becoming.

File: Knowledge engine grant agreement.pdf - Wikimedia Foundation
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Knowledge_engine_grant_agreement.pdf

Knowledge Engine - Meta
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Engine

Wikimedia Foundation takes aim at Google search with $ 3.5 m 'Knowledge Engine' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-15/wikimedia-foundation-aims-to-take-on-google-in-search/7168840


Speaking of the biggest search engine, Google, a digital market analysis companyComScoreAccording to it, that share is 67%. About 20% at Bing of Microsoft, 2nd place is Yahoo! It is about 10% and so on.

The Wikimedia Foundation insists that these commercial search engines "dominate" the Internet and have already compromised the way to acquire knowledge and information on the Internet using patented technology, Knowledge Engine by Wikipedia "is required.

In the Knowledge Engine by Wikipedia, the user is shown to know the source of the information or where it is, and there is no advertisement to completely separate it from the business world due to the free flow of information. "It will become the first" transparent "search engine on the Internet."

According to the data submitted by the Wikimedia Foundation to obtain support, the total budget is 2,440,573 dollars (about 279 million yen) and these are for 14 staff and hardware, mobility and health related expenses It is supposed to be. Staff consists of 8 engineers including programmers, 2 data analysts, 4 people including director and vice president.

Please note that Google and Yahoo! Is suddenly entering the same project, the concern is that the success rate will be lowered.

By the way, Wikipedia has previously created an open source search engine called "Wikia Search". However, this project has been canceled and closed on March 31, 2009, as Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, failed to get the results he wanted.

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According to the Wikimedia Foundation, it is a mistake to "make a global search engine" is mistake, it is said that it creates an engine that will allow better search across Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects Thing.

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http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/02/16/wikimedia-search-future/

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