Jeremie Miller and Wikia Search

Jeremie Miller dropped me an email yesterday, letting me know he had looked for me while visiting 625 2nd Street in San Francisco. He was there meeting other folks with offices in the building. I asked what he was up to, and he responded that he is working with Jimmy Wales and the folks at Wikia on a new open source search platform:

[from Jabber Founder Jeremie Miller Joins Forces with Jimmy Wales to Build Open Search Platform]

Miller to spearhead development of a new search platform combining human intelligence with open protocols.

San Mateo, Calif. (PRWEB via PRWebDirect) May 1, 2007 — Wikia, Inc. (www.wikia.com) the leading provider of community resources for building and organizing free content on every topic, today announced that Jabber founder Jeremie Miller has joined forces with Wikia founder Jimmy Wales to collaborate on building a new search platform founded on open-source search protocols and human collaboration.

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Miller is widely recognized as the inventor of Jabber, an open instant messaging community and the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), which is an open protocol that allows instant messaging platforms to interoperate and users to communicate freely and safely. Building on the same principles, Miller hopes to combine the transparency and power of an open protocol with the efficacy of a user-editable search experience.

“The Internet and Web are founded on completely open principles, I’ve championed this philosophy for instant messaging and believe that the awesome power of search should be based on the same fundamental rules,” said Jeremie Miller. “The power of a simple protocol is that it enables networks of resources to collaborate openly, to be constructive instead of competitive. I’m eager to work with Jimmy and empower everyone in the search industry with a transparent collaborative open protocol, from researchers, to developers, vertical search startups, and most importantly, end users.”

The conversation is evolving at Wikia’s search.wikia.com (www.search.wikia.com) community wiki, through which Wikia is funding and supporting the development of something radically new. Together Miller and Wales aim to build a new economy for Internet search that relies on absolute transparency, collaboration, and human intelligence to complement search algorithms.

Wow. How did I miss that?

I plan to ask Jeremie to join me in an upcoming episode of /Talkshow to tell us all more about it.