Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Wikia Search, and a cat

Wikia, Jimbo Wales' company, launched a search engine a while back. No-one really noticed, because it was dreadful (especially the ranking; it's pretty nonsensical), but it got a bit of publicity today, for reasons I'm not clear on.

Anyway, look what happens to the header if you search for 'cat':

It's not a bad cat, I suppose, but felines of far higher grade can be found with little effort on Google Images.

I'm not sure why anyone thought that endless tiled pictures of cats (or whatever; things turn up for quite a few searches) was a particularly sensible idea. It looks pretty dreadful, generally.

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