Information Week's Stephen Wellman poses the question, "Will Google Be Destroyed By Open Source Search Engines?" Jimmy Wales's Wikia stands a chance, Wellman says. It depends in part on
whether a mishmash of random crawls from the Web will be an adequate substitute to a centralized effort.
If nothing else, Wellman sees Wikia as the catalyst both vertical search and
local search advocates have been seeking. The threat to Google, he says, will come from thousands of specialty engines and Web apps. He points to Technorati for blog search and Blinkx for video search
as two upstarts that beat Google at its newer search initiatives.
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