Misplaced Pages

Wikiseek was a search engine that indexed English Misplaced Pages pages and pages that were linked to from Misplaced Pages articles. The search engine was funded by a Palo Alto based Internet startup SearchMe and was officially launched on January 17, 2007. Most of the funding came from Sequoia Capital. It used Google ads on its search returns to generate profit. As of 2008 it is no longer active.

Wikiseek was granted permission by the Wikimedia Foundation to index the Misplaced Pages website. Wikiseek has made financial contributions to the Wikimedia Foundation, and the group-edited blog, TechCrunch reported that it was donating the "majority" of advertising revenue.

Misplaced Pages pages were re-indexed whenever Misplaced Pages had a database clean-up; external links were re-indexed weekly. Search results included tag clouds of Misplaced Pages categories that contained the search term. The first three results of any search would always be Misplaced Pages articles, and the remainder were a mix of Misplaced Pages content and websites linked to from Misplaced Pages. The service used user feedback to reduce the likelihood of spam.

TechCrunch commented that the search engine may cause confusion with the Wikia search engine that had been announced the month previous to Wikiseek's launch.

References

1. ^ "Misplaced Pages Search Engine WikiSeek Launches". TechCrunch. 16 January 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-21.
2. ^ "Wikiseek: Leveraging Misplaced Pages For Web Search, Poorly". Search Engine Land. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
3. ^ "Misplaced Pages Gets Plug-In Search Engine". InformationWeek. Retrieved 2008-08-21.

External links

• TechCrunch Article

• Domain-specific search engines
• Defunct internet search engines