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Wikipedia’s search application, ‘’Wiki Search'’ will be launched on January 7,2008. Like the popular Encyclopaedia,Wikipedia’s search will also be an opensource and community enterprise.Wikipedia’s search founders believe this will make the search more transparent and human. Popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo work solely on algorithms which sometimes throw up irrevalant search results.Apart from the usual search algorithm and Web crawler, Wikipedia’s search will also use the help of technology enthusiasts of its wide spread community to rank and filter sites.

Networking major Cisco is well on track on its $1.1 bilion investment plans announced in 2005 and of tripling its headcount in the country, chairman and CEO John Chambers said. Cisco plans to increase its India employee base to 10000 by 2010.

Speaking about the $1.1 billion investment in India, Mr.Chambers said that they were very much on target. It was very likely that they would exceed the 10000 people target, he said. Mr.chambers met Prime Minister Mr.Manmohan singh and commerce minister Kamal Nath.

Cisco’s $1.1 billion investment in India includes a $750 million investment in R&D activities, training and development by 2008. It is also earmarked $150 million for a fund to be deployed by Cisco Systems Capital, $100 million for venture capital investments in India, $50 million for a new campus in Bangalore and $100 million for customer support operations. The 3000 seat Bangalore campus, called the Globalisation Centre East, will be inaugurated by Mr.chambers.

Cisco Systems, currently has 3200 employees in India, of which 3000 are engaged in R&D. the company has also set a target of developing 20% of its top leadership team in India by 2012.

Chinese search Engine Baidu has surged ahead in recent months and has surpassed Microsoft to become the third most used search engine in August after web majors Google and Yahoo.

A comScore study said that 3.2 billion searches were carried out on Baidu while there were only 2.1 billion searchers in MSN. Another Asian search engine, NHN of Korea, came fifth after MSN, above AOL and Ask.com.

Mr.Bob Ivins of ConScore said that this shows that search has become a trudly global phenomenon. Baidu, which imitates Google’s simple interface, searches websites, audio files, and images. The name Baidu is taken from an old Chinese poem.

Its most popular feature is its MP3 Search which attracts millions of Chinese youth looking for pop music.