Google and Wikia are soon going to be rivals. We find wikipedia dominating most of the top search queires on Google, will it have some effect soon? Need to wait and see.
Knol (Google’s new encyclopedia)
The news is that very soon Google is going to launch a Wikipedia rival. The Encyclopedia from Google is to be known as Knol as short name for Knowledge. This will again be a user contribution, but not same as Wikipedia. Knol will have users who can create pages and will have an option to put Advertisements on their pages and share the revenue. This will be an extra advantage to attract authors and good for professional writers. Like Wikipedia, every user will not be able to edit the pages, but can write reviews and comments. Knol will be connected to Google search engine. There was an a post about Knol at the Official Google Blog related to Knol
Wikiasari (New Search Engine From Wikipedia)
Wikiasari is not really associated with Wikimedia Foundation which is a non-profit organization, but it is a project of Wikia which is a profit making company. Jimmy Wales is the man behind Wikipedia and he is also involved in Wikia.
Wikia results will be a combination of machine and human work for the results and will be a competitor for Google. Google results are the best till now, thats what I feel, but there are some spammers who are successful in manipulating the results. Anyway we will need to wait till the launch of the two, which is expected very soon
Wikiseek which is a search engine, which give results only from Wikipedia pages and the pages linked to Wikipedia articles
