March 13th, 2007

WikiSeek Launches Community Edited Search Engine

WikiSeek should not be confused with Wikia’s upcoming search engine (although I did). Both, however, are developing community-edited search engines, and both have received assistance from Wikipedia (Wikia, though, is co-founded by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales). And while Wikia pushed some more vaporware news last week about their own upcoming community edited search engine, WikiSeek quietly… → Read More

January 16th, 2007

Wikipedia Search Engine WikiSeek Launches

Palo Alto based startup SearchMe has kept a low profile since being founded in March 2005. The company, which has 17 employees and raised $5 million from Sequoia Capital over two rounds, will launch a number of what founder Randy Adams calls “long tail search engines” in the near future. The first product they are launching is WikiSeek, which went live about an hour ago and will be… → Read More