14 DAY TRIAL // Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia accessible via the official website and it is based only on volunteers that are continuously writing new articles about all kinds of information from the entire world. Wikipedia was founded in English on January 15, 2001 by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales and it is now available in multiple languages including Afrikaans, Spanish, German, Italian and Romanian. At this time, Wikipedia has more than 6 million articles in several languages with more than 1.5 million in English and over 1 million in German. Because it is a free service, the Wikipedia Foundation is currently receiving donations from users from the entire world, having approximately $1 million funds.
Some time ago, Wikipedia's founders announced that they are planning to release an innovative search engine meant to challenge Google and Yahoo. Wikiasari was still a project but its developers sustained that the search engine is going to be one of the most powerful search technologies on the internet. Until the release of Wikiasari, Wikipedia released WikiSeek, another search engine designed especially for the official webpage. The service allows users to search for information on the Wikipedia website, being more powerful than the search function provided on the webpage.
"The contents of Wikiseek are restricted to Wikipedia pages and only those sites which are referenced within Wikipedia, making it an authoritative source of information less subject to spam and SEO schemes. Wikiseek utilizes Searchme's category refinement technology, providing suggested search refinements based on user tagging and categorization within Wikipedia, making results more relevant than conventional search engines," it is mentioned on the official webpage of the search technology.
"In addition to the search engine, WikiSeek has two additional tools - a search plugin for Firefox, IE7 and Opera, and a really useful grease monkey-like Firefox extension that will change the way Wikipedia looks on that browser by adding a "WikiSearch" button to the search box (see screen shot below). Click that button and see WikiSeek's Wikipedia-only results. It's faster and better than the results Wikipedia returns through its native search feature," TechCrunch said about the product.