Derek Gottfrid, who used to work on search for NYT, just launched FUTEF, a search engine for Wikipedia content. It’s looking nice, doing some faceted stuff, and at least yesterday it was snappy fast, too.
I wonder what the Wikipedia policy is on making money off of derived works of the Wikipedia content (the Google ads on the side).
Btw, I ask Derek (by proxy) about the name, and it turns out it’s computer-generated, based on length, number of vowels, Google search hits, and of course domain availability. That’s how real search people choose names. It’s an interesting method, though I wanted to know what it meant when I heard it. I wonder what it does for memorability. (via Christina.)
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