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Microsoft Shuts Encarta, Wikipedia Gives up on Wikia Search
Chris Keall | Wednesday April 1 2009 - 09:31am
The National Business Review
<http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/
microsoft-shuts-encarta-wikipedia-gives-wikia-search-98178>
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Microsoft will close the book on its online encyclopaedia on October 31.
Wikipedia bares some of the blame, but has its own problems.
During the 1990s, Microsofts Encarta encyclopaedia, using content licensed
from little-known Funk & Wagnalls, shook up the print industry.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica struggled against Microsofts upstart, which
was delivered on CD-ROM with many new consumer PCs.
But the new decade saw Encarta move online, but on the web it has been
overwhelmed by the community-generated Wikipedia, which has millions of
articles to Encartas 50,000.
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But Wikipedia is not having things all its own way.
Today the sites founder, Jimmy Wales, announced that is spin-off
crowd-sourcing search engine, Wikia Search, will be shut down.
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March 31, 2009
Microsoft accepts defeat to Wikipedia and kills off Encarta
Murad Ahmed, Technology Reporter
Times
<http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/
news/tech_and_web/article6008575.ece>
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Microsoft has announced it will kill off Encarta, its encyclopaedia
software and website, later this year, which has crumbled in the face of
competition from Wikipedia, the leading encyclopaedia on the web.
After nearly 15 years since it arrived on shelves, Microsoft announced on
its website that Encarta will stop being available by the end of the year
in most places worldwide.
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The move is a tacit acceptance that Microsoft could no longer compete with
the overwhelming popularity of Wikipedia, the free online website that
launched in 2001. In January, Wikipedia got 97 per cent of the visits that
web users in the US made to online encyclopaedias, according to Hitwise,
the internet tracking company. Encarta trailed in second, with 1.27 per
cent.
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