Recently I heard from Eugene Karlik of Techrigy which makes WikiTag! It is a wiki search directory that allows users to register their wikis, tag it, and then let users search for it. It is definitely a beta product, but they developers mentioned that outside of Qwika, there isn’t really a tool to help users sort through the thousands and thousands of wikis out there. Eventually, they hope to be able to add crawling and spiders that will be able to specifically identify and index wikis.
I tried it out and there were quite a few hits on “knowledge management” and a few more on “web 2.0.“ They have a WikiTag! blog and claim to have developed WikiTag! In less than two weeks with three people in one post. They add that WikiTag! is, “rough, crude, beta product, but the functionality is there. We'll be adding many features over the next weeks, but WikiTag! is capable and useful right now.” I would agree with it. It will be interesting to see how it evolves and what functionality they bring on.
This is their second foray into social media applications, as they also run BlogBackupOnline. It was recently named in “25 web sites to watch” by PCWorld. This is another useful function. 
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Wiki Tag appears to be nice service, but it only searches the name of the wiki. I've built a Google Co-Op search engine which combines the full content of some of the better wikis. I am willing to add additional wikis ... and I have no vested interest or profit motive. I just wanted to create a useful search engine. Click upon my name for access.
Posted by: Rich Hoeg | July 20, 2007 at 06:15 PM
Cool stuff, for both of the wiki engines above. It seems wikitag is a bit more workable at this time, since while it does not crawl through content, it is searchable based on the name and tag of the wiki. Rich's engine gave me a zillion entries from wikipedia when I searched for something. WikiTag actually gave me specific wikis that deal with the stuff I was searching for. Obviously both engines are very crude tools at this point, though...
Posted by: Tommy Hanson | July 23, 2007 at 03:34 PM
Toomy - Thanks for taling the time to compare this two tools. It is appreciated. Bill
Posted by: Bill Ives | July 23, 2007 at 09:39 PM
Tommy - sorry to get your name wrong - the problem with doing this late at night - Bill
Posted by: Bill Ives | July 23, 2007 at 09:42 PM
Searchboth.net is the first site to place google and yahoo side by side on one split screen. The web site takes the user's query and creates a browser window with two frames, with the results from Yahoo! on one side and those from google on the other. It has completely end up the hassles involved while searching different search engines at the same time.
Posted by: Searchboth | January 09, 2008 at 02:32 AM