Introduction:
Web search has become the hottest application on the wire in recent years, but the online encyclopedia tools like wikipedia still prove their success over powerful web based search engines like Yahoo or Google when a user wants to find some specific information on the web with search keywords, like “second world war” or “Microsoft corporation”. Just to give an illustration, if you search Google or yahoo for “Microsoft corporation” will return you links from web like the following ( top 10 results )
2) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
3) support.microsoft.com
5) msdn2.microsoft.com
6) office.microsoft.com
7) office.microsoft.com/en-us/frontpage/default.aspx
9) msdn.microsoft.com/xml
10)members.microsoft.com/careers/default.mspx
Now, lets see what happens when we go to wikipedia for the same
It takes us to the page of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corporation article, which comprises the following
* 1 History
o 1.1 1975–1985: The founding of Microsoft
o 1.2 1985–1991: The rise and fall of OS/2
o 1.3 1992–1995: Domination of the corporate market
o 1.4 1995–1999: Foray into the Web and other ventures
o 1.5 2000–2005: Legal issues, XP, and .NET
o 1.6 2005–2007: The road to
* 2 Product divisions
o 2.1 Microsoft Platform Products and Services Divisions
o 2.2 Microsoft Business Division
o 2.3 Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division
* 3 Business culture
* 4 User culture
* 5 Corporate affairs
o 5.1 Corporate structure
o 5.2 Stock
o 5.3 Diversity
o 5.4 Logos and slogans
* 6 Criticism
o 6.1 Corporate
o 6.2 Technical
* 7 Microsoft.com
* 8 See also
* 9 References and footnotes
* 10 External links
Isn’t that great, a single source for all your want to knows … you can know better about Microsoft corporation from this page than anything available on the web, as this is a very structured and globally contributed article which pretty much cover the entire Microsoft story, so now on you will always go to this page instead of doing popular search engine search.
But lets not stop here, lets take a third approach..What happens if I would have searched web using the globally shared contexts on “Microsoft Corporation”.
Like the following
search string
(contexts)
a)Microsoft corporation history:
##### results #### ##### source #####
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft yahoo search
www.radessays.com/viewpaper/13230/Microsoft_History.html yahoo search
www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.asp yahoo search
www.answers.com/topic/microsoft yahoo search
www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company.htm yahoo search
www.csl.mtu.edu/winter98/cs320/micro/history yahoo search
The history of Microsoft Corporation? yahoo Answers search
The History and Development of Microsoft Corporation? yahoo Answers search
b) Microsoft products
www.microsoft.com/products yahoo search
www.microsoftproducts.net yahoo search
technet.microsoft.com yahoo search
office.microsoft.com yahoo search
msdn.microsoft.com/canada/academic/products yahoo search
members.microsoft.com/careers/careerpath/
marketing/product.mspx yahoo search
tech.msn.com/guides/msproducts/default.aspx yahoo search
Why do Microsoft products suck? yahoo Answer search
Why do some people hate Microsoft, but still use
Microsoft products? yahoo Answer search
Microsoft products? yahoo Answer search
IBM and Microsoft product compatibility? yahoo Answer search
How can I find who a Microsoft product is registered to? yahoo Answer search
Stupid Microsoft Product Activation Bullshit problem? yahoo Answer search
Gory Details:
How it works? Possibly that will an interesting question to answer at this point…
This is a new type of wiki driven by search , as said that basically creating a document here is something like this , you define a keyword on which you also create search contexts like if the keyword is a person , as Shahrukh Khan , the possible contexts will be “filmography” , “awards and nominations” , “scandals” . Then once you define the contexts, you will be given the options to choose the search channels , like Yahoo search , yahoo answers , de.icio.us tag search , technorati blog search and when you select the search channels and generate the results …you will be given control to choose the results. Now once you choose the results …it will wiki the whole thing, keyword as the document root …under that various contexts defined and under each context the links that you have chosen. Now when I say that the whole thing is going to be built on the wikipedia infrastructure …then its valid that anyone can add more contexts and refine and redefine any of the existing contexts.