Knowledge Engine (search engine)

A screenshot of the Knowledge Graph surrounding a Wikipedia article.
The search example of the Knowledge Engine states "Ad-free, secure, non-profit: Make Wikipedia your default search".[1]

Knowledge Engine (KE) was a search engine project initiated in 2015 by the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) to locate and display verifiable and trustworthy information from public-information sources[2] in a way that was less reliant on traditional search engines.[3] It aimed to allow readers to stay on Wikipedia.org and other Wikipedia-related projects when looking for additional information rather than turning to proprietary search engines.[3] Its goal was to protect user privacy, to be open and transparent about how its information originates, and to allow access to related metadata.[4]

The project was controversial internally, and ended early in 2016. Related ideas were applied to the internal cross-wiki search engine for Wikimedia projects.[1]

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