# Wikiseek

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English Wikipedia pages search engine

Wikiseek Type of site search engine Available in English Owner SearchMe Created by SearchMe Registration no Launched January 17, 2007 Current status Inactive

**Wikiseek** was a [search engine](/source/Search_engine) that indexed [English Wikipedia](/source/English_Wikipedia) pages and pages that were linked to from Wikipedia articles.[1] The search engine was funded by a [Palo Alto](/source/Palo_Alto) based [Internet startup](/source/Internet_startup) [SearchMe](/source/SearchMe) and was officially launched on January 17, 2007.[1][2] Most of the funding came from [Sequoia Capital](/source/Sequoia_Capital).[3] It used [Google ads](/source/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 As of 2008 it is no longer active.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](/source/Wikimedia_Foundation) to index the Wikipedia website.[2] Wikiseek has made financial contributions to the Wikimedia Foundation,[2] and the group-edited blog, [TechCrunch](/source/TechCrunch) reported that it was donating the "majority" of advertising revenue.[1]

Wikipedia pages were re-indexed whenever Wikipedia had a database clean-up; external links were re-indexed weekly.[2] Search results included [tag clouds](/source/Tag_cloud) of Wikipedia categories that contained the search term.[1] The first three results of any search would always be Wikipedia articles, and the remainder were a mix of Wikipedia content and websites linked to from Wikipedia.[1] The service used user feedback to reduce the likelihood of spam.[3]

TechCrunch commented that the search engine may cause confusion with the [Wikia](/source/Wikia) [search engine](/source/Search_engine) that had been announced the month previous to Wikiseek's launch.[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-techcrunch_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-techcrunch_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-techcrunch_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-techcrunch_1-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-techcrunch_1-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-techcrunch_1-5) ["Wikipedia Search Engine WikiSeek Launches"](https://techcrunch.com/2007/01/16/wikipedia-search-engine-wikiseek-launches/). TechCrunch. 16 January 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-21.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-sel_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-sel_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-sel_2-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-sel_2-3) ["Wikiseek: Leveraging Wikipedia For Web Search, Poorly"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080516082051/http://searchengineland.com/070116-074812.php). Search Engine Land. Archived from [the original](http://searchengineland.com/070116-074812.php) on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2008-05-04.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-iw_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-iw_3-1) ["Wikipedia Gets Plug-In Search Engine"](http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196901494). InformationWeek. Retrieved 2008-08-21.

## External links

Wikinews has related news:

- [New search engine to search inside Wikipedia](https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/New_search_engine_to_search_inside_Wikipedia)

- [TechCrunch Article](https://techcrunch.com/2007/01/16/wikipedia-search-engine-wikiseek-launches/)

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