Well, I thought several times from January up to now so I wanted to send this post. In 2006, I created a web project. It was an "open source search engine". Users were inserting URLs, adding comments, voting each others insertions so that I was hoping to create an organic search result structure. It was not like digg, users were adding URLs relating to a keyword, it was like an open source Google. I tried to demonstrate in forums (I was very amateur on marketing), no one joined and some weeks later, I gave up thinking it's a stupid idea. It's now closed: http://www.libaria.org , because I didn't pay hosting payments. As I said I thought I worked for nothing. I asked Wikipedia to develop it together. They said something like "Good luck, if you'll be successful, take care of robots, we don't want to work together". Later I offered: "This can be a billion dollar project, bla bla", they said they don't make profit, bla bla. I tried to transform into a Facebook App but later gave up. After I gave up project, Jimmy Wales created Wikia. It was a parallel company which aims to make profit. They created the same thing this year. Users come and add URLs so there's an organic search result page. The design is also Google like. There are some features which don't exist in wikia-search (like voting results or discussing or creating parallel search engines) which I think can make the project more reliable and can turn this project a speed growing structure. OK, What do you think? OK, I know it's a very simple and strong idea but most of the good web projects are... What I think: Well I can prove nothing, I don't have that mail, great mistake. I don't know exactly who replyed, but what I remember is he was someone from the founders because I remember that I found his name in Wikipedia so he was not a help desk staff. What I think 2: Those days, I thought to guarantee the rights of the idea legally. I didn't. The lesson to learn from this story is to guarantee legal rights I guess. What I think 3: I can believe if one of us already created something like e.g. Knol, but most probably we didn't see and care. When it's an internet giant, we jump and accept as legend. We don't support each others innovations. We should think of this. Cache: http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cach....org/login.php+libaria.org&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1 I wrote to some forums, http://www.thescienceforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=48814