'Wiki search tech will find a way... '

The online collaboration responsible for Wikipedia plans to build a search engine to rival those of Google and Yahoo!.

Wikia, the commercial counterpart to the not-for-profit Wikipedia, is aiming to take as much as five per cent of the lucrative internet search market, said Jimmy Wales, founder of the popular internet encyclopedia, at a news conference in Tokyo.

Wales said: "The idea that Google has some edge because they've got super-duper rocket scientists may be a little antiquated now."

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