Swicki & Google

Arnold M. Zwicky zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Wed Jul 5 13:35:57 UTC 2006


On Jul 5, 2006, at 5:47 AM, Barry Popik wrote:

> I... What is this swicki business? Is Arnold behind it?
>
>
> ... This is a swicki
> A search engine that learns from your community

some explanation at http://swicki.eurekster.com/

i wonder about the history of the name.  looks like it's designed to
suggest "wiki" without actually being confused with it.

"swicki" *is* one of very many misspellings of my family name, though.

arnold

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