Can Jimmy Wales Really Kill Google?

I doubt it. But it’s been fun reading some of the ridiculous posts that are all over the web right now. The first one I came across this morning was a post by Isabel Wang titled:

Wikipedia Founder Launches Human Powered Search Engine; Goodbye to SEO?

Jimmy is going to kill Google and SEO? Now that’s a post I needed to read.

Unfortunately, Isabel must have forgotten to post the part about SEO. Not a single mention of it.

Then I moved on to TechCrunch. They got me to click and read because they had an “exclusive screen shot” of Jimmy’s Google killing app. Now that is something I needed to see. But it turns out that all they really had was a picture of a mediocre “MSN Quality” SERP with some Adwords ads and a few wiki tags thrown in at the top.

Are you kidding me? That SERP is what’s going to kill Google?

Then I surfed on over to Jimmy’s site. He’s got a message posted on the homepage telling everyone that TechCrunch is full of crap. That screen shot has nothing to do with his top secret Google killer. (Of course, he doesn’t provide any information about the real project. In order to get that, you need to subscribe to his mailing list).

I certainly hope he’s telling the truth. I know if I was Amazon and I’d just invested a bunch of cash, I’d be pretty pissed to find out the “great idea” was to use Nutch to crawl all the external links in the Wiki….