Due to my pre-occupation with a regular job and commercial interests on the web, I find very little time for blogging. Sorry for that But I promise to turn to a serious blogger gradually.

As I was checking into my RSS feeds, I noticed that Matt Cutts wrote about the born of a new search engine - the Wikia. I immediately got negative feeling about it more because I am in the opinion that the Niche is the way for the future. What I mean is, the general search engine industry is already saturated and success lies in search engines that would serve specific niche industry.

Already, there are cries on the web about businesses going broke with Google AdWords simply because search marketing have become so competitive that - AdWords clicks are not getting the desired results - conversion.

I have more reservation about Wikia and this comes from my personal experiences while using their services. I tried to search few words and they were giving me errors.

While its early days for them, I believe they could have done better if they launched it after full development. My first experience have left me in bad taste.

Anyway, best of luck to the Wikia team as I have another topic to blog about.

Posted on January 13th, 2008 by John
Filed under: Uncategorized