Yahoo! is suavely first to the punch.

Most of you know this by now; I’ve been too busy to update my blog much recently or you might have heard it here first. 😉 Yahoo! Search is providing support for Wikipedia.

Wikimedia content will be feature more prominently in Yahoo searches, beginning in French, and be mirrored via Yahoo’s massive Korean datacenter. Once redundant clusters of this sort are set up around the world, there is some question of how to use the resulting off-peak spare cycles… ideas?

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 7th, 2005 at 8:10 pm and is filed under %a la mod. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Yahoo! is suavely first to the punch.”

  1. Dan100 says:
    April 8, 2005 at 6:48 am

    Spare cycles… a BOINC project or two, surely? Though preferably not SETI@home – there are other rather more worthwhile projects going on now!

  2. sj says:
    April 9, 2005 at 3:56 am

    well if not SETI, what? there’s protein folding; what else?