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Way back at the begin­ning of the year in my un-predictions, I sug­gested that:

Social search (eg Wink and Stum­ble­Upon) will become ever more appeal­ing to many peo­ple who already trust their net­works more than any old school search engine.

Well, while nei­ther Wink nor Stum­ble­Upon have made huge inroads, the lat­est announce­ment from Wikia (the peo­ple broadly kinda, sorta behind Wikipedia) could be very interesting.

Essen­tially, Wikia is look­ing to cre­ate an open source user-driven social search offer­ing (there’s some kind of vicious acronym in there some­where). They have recently acquired dis­trib­uted web crawler Grub which uses users’ PC idle time to crawl the web. And, of course, Wikia knows a thing or two about har­ness­ing user-driven con­tent. Which could all lead to some­thing pretty interesting.

BTW even as things stand right now, if you want a dif­fer­ent spin than the results pro­vided by the Yahoogles of the world, try search­ing in del.icio.us to see what oth­ers have already discovered.

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