Wikiwix

Infobox Website
name = Wikiwix



caption = Wikiwix logo (without the Kiwi bird)
url = [http://www.wikiwix.com www.wikiwix.com]
commercial = ?
type = search engine
language = multilingual
registration = no
owner = Linterweb
author = ?
launch date =
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alexa = ~10,000 [ [http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/wikiwix.com wikiwix.com - Traffic Details from Alexa ] ]

Wikiwix is a multilingual Web search engine operated independently from Wikimedia. It gives only results out of Wikipedia's database. Wikiwix is not a wiki as the name would suggest.

Features include many texts, images and geographical search for maps called "atlas" (the latter by selecting graphical maps) in 13 languages (Arabic, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Interlingua, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish).

The logo pictures a kiwi bird which is picking food off the ground and the motto is "the ultimate Wikipedia articles search". The search engine is operated by Linterweb based in Val-de-Reuil, France (8 employees), which also is the publisher of the DVD Wikipedia v0.5 in 2007 (see History of Wikipedia).

Wikiwix has been added as an option for external search (along with some other search engines such as Google and Yahoo) on several Wikipedia projects, for example on English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

ee also

*Googlepedia
*List of search engines
*Wikiseek
*Qwika

References

External links

* [http://www.wikiwix.com/?lang=en Official page]

ources

* http://www.wikiwix.com