Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

Wikiseek is a new search tool that searches all of Wikipedia and its outgoing links to other websites.  Think of it as an encyclopedia search that searches all the references and sources, as well as the text itself.  I can think of this being rather useful in research situations in libraries quite frequently.  From their self-description:

The contents of Wikiseek are restricted to Wikipedia pages and only those sites which are referenced within Wikipedia, making it an authoritative source of information less subject to spam and SEO schemes.

Wikiseek utilizes Searchme’s category refinement technology, providing suggested search refinements based on user tagging and categorization within Wikipedia, making results more relevant than conventional search engines.