I was reading about wikia and I found out that they will be having a beta launch on Jan 7. We’ll, it is already January 7 so I tried going to the site to check it out.

The search results seem pretty ok for me so I wondered if search engine spammers were already getting a hold of some pretty valuable keywords like “viagra”.

I then went to http://alpha.search.wikia.com/ and keyed in “viagra” and lo and behold, there was an image at the right side of the screen with a title “People Matching Viagra”. The guy looks very familiar to me and it looks like one of the famous people in the SEO community.

I then moved my mouse over the image and then it says “Matt Cutts”.

Geez! I don’t know if this is some prank or what but I think the search engine war between Google and Wikia has started!!!

I wonder how would Matt Cutts respond to this? Will he put Jimmy Whales photo in google images? (http://images.google.com/images?q=viagra)

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