Wikipedia to launch a search engine
Had I known that Mr Jimmy Wales would be in a city a mere three hours drive away I would have certainly not missed the opportunity of meeting him. He was in town for what soft ware people call an "un conference", and from the gushing reports from the local press he was a resounding success. He stayed as a house guest of a techie-blogger and answered all questions posed to him without an ounce of patronising familiarity and believe me everyone was impressed. As a founder of the online Wukipedia he is familiar to all internet users and he had a lot to say about the future direction of Wikipedia.
He quite honsetly addressed the question of plagarism and felt that it will be fixed in the near future. By giving people the right to edit and change the text, Wikipedia allows a certain degree of flexibility from traditional norms of authetication. As Mr Jimmy Wales told an interviewer, "I have been watching the growth of the free software movement and seeing people using free licences to collabirate on almost anything. Then I thought an encyclopedia would be something for the world." He says that in future multi-set process would prevent any radical change in the online text. Wiki is as Mr Jimmy Wales rightly says is the sum total of individual contributors and has become a model for information shaing in all global corporate offices.
Mr Jimmy Wales also unvieled palns for a search engine and the search algorithms will be in the public domain. As he put it the idea behind this innovation, "will be to change the competitive landscape of search and encourage global innovation".
Tghe online community will be following the plans of Mr Jimmy Wales.