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Wikiwix [1] is a search engine that performs searches on Wikipedia articles. [2]
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Wikiwix [1] is a search engine that performs searches on Wikipedia articles. [2]
Wikiwix is not a wiki, as the name might suggest, but is a multilingual internet search engine operating independently of the Wikimedia Foundation. However, its search results are provided solely from the Wikipedia database. [3] It also provides an archiving service which sees extensive use in the French Wikipedia. [4] [5]
The search engine is developed by a French company, Linterweb, which has also published Wikipedia 0.5 on DVD in 2007. [6] The company employs eight people. [4]
Wikiwix was officially installed on the internal search engines of some Wikipedias in 2007, along with search engines from Google, Yahoo, and others. The German Wikipedia incorporated it into its search page in mid-2007. [4]
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The search engine allows searching for texts, images and geographical names on maps (called "atlas") in 13 languages (Arabic, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Interlingua, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish).
The logo depicts a blue kiwi bird picking up food from the ground,[ citation needed ] and the motto in English is "the ultimate Wikipedia articles search." [4]