by Chris on March 31, 2009

Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia announced today that his user generated search engine Wikia search will be closed down.
While the idea of a social search engine was an interesting concept, the results on Wikia search when I have used it have been terrible. Whales said today that the project is still one or two years away from being usable by the public and that the search engine was receiving an average of 10.000 uniques a month.
by Chris on March 30, 2009
I have just finished watching BBC’s Watchdog review UK text Q&A services.
Watchdog focused on the three largest suppliers: 118 118 (the market leader in the UK), Textperts (recently taken over by 118118) and AQA (Any Question Answered) 63336.
Watchdog which is a weekly consumer affairs programme in the UK, received complaints from viewers concerning the quality of responses, so they decided to investigate.
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