Wikipedia counters Google's attack

 After the internet giant Google announced a few days ago that it would be venturing into the field of internet encyclopaedias and thus challenging Wikipedia for the throne (see ), the user-fed knowledge disseminator is now striking back. Wikipedia is planning to launch its own search engine. "I want to develop a search engine whose algorithm is accessible to everyone," Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales told Die Zeit. At the moment, all search engines are closed systems, each owned by one company. These companies decide for themselves how they rate websites and therefore influence how we should see the world. As users, we have no idea how this happens. That is why Wikipedia now wants to involve Internet users in the work on a wiki search engine. If users are not satisfied with the search result because the pages listed at the top are poor in terms of content, they can mark the page as spam in future. If the page is marked in this way by several people, it will then end up in the trash. Wales said that this would gradually improve the search engine.