From the Wikia Search emailing list:

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From: Jason McCabe Calacanis <jason@calacanis.com>
Date: Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Subject: [Search-l] Why did Search Wikia Fail, where did it succeed?
To: Mailing list for Search Wikia <search-l@wikia.com>

Friends,

I’m thinking of writing up a recap of what went well with Wikia search (nutch/lmprovements) and what didn’t.

Was wondering if in the spirit of disclosure those involved would give a public (or private) accounting… Jason@calacanis.com

Also, Mahalo has some open crawl interest and would love to host this list If it is going to get shut down. Perhaps we should move to a google group before it does?

Note: not looking for Jimmy Wales bashing–just lessons learned.

Best j

No comment.  Actually, that’s a lie: how about that stupid email list?  I emailed Jimbo and his sidekick and offered them MetaMojo.com (which I pretty much discontinued to focus on WatchMojo.com, wisely), which was based on Nutch/Lucene and they could not even explain what they were up to.

Wales might be a God for investing Wikipedia, but this search project has disaster written all over it.  More on Wikisearchwhatever and Mahalo here.

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