Wikiseek Open Beta Is Live

Wikiseek is a search engine that indexes only Wikipedia links. Created by SearchMe, and it is an interesting (if limited) alternative to Google. According to the schpeel:

1. Wikiseek searches Wikipedia, and the "external links" of Wikipedia
articles. These are considered authoritative Internet sources. This means
that the search results are only as comprehensive as Wikipedia. Wikiseek is
NOT a search engine of the entire World Wide Web.

2. The current index is not dynamically updated. Extremely new content at
Wikipedia will not be reflected in our index.

3. We are testing an 8-bit character set version of the software. This means
that extended international characters will not be displayed. Ultimately,
Wikiseek will support international character sets.

Techcrunch has some update on it as well...

AskCity

AskCity was in the news today, however when I had some time on hand, and decided to try out the interface, it threw up a login screen saying the service was still available only to limited users. Guess the news came in early Eastern time, and AskCity was slated for a Pacific time launch? BTW, I was still on Indian time so much ahead of both. In any case I tried playing with it again, but only after reading Scoble's post on the same, and that has tainted my view on it a bit. The site does not live up to the press it has got, at least...