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...profit Wikipedia, but has now shifted its focus to search. Community involvement through volunteer editors, the backbone of Wikipedia, is clearly in Wales' plans. He revealed a second part of his strategy through his acquisition from Looksmart of the curiously named Grub, an open source distributed search crawler index...
...Reminiscent of the early days of Google's index, built by thousands of daisy-chained personal computers, the Grub Project works by using participants' idle computer power. If enough users volunteer their idle computer time to index the Web, hundreds of thousands of PCs could possibly match the indexing power of first-tier search engines such as Google. The idea of this kind of distributed computing first gained notoriety with the SETI@home project, launched in late 1999. The project set out to find extraterrestrial life through a novel program that launched a screensaver when you weren't using your...
...Wales can grow his volunteer base of previously idle computers as he has grown the editorial manpower of Wikipedia, perhaps a feasible search index is within grasp. Indexing the Internet, however, is the least of Jimbo's problems. Search engines rely on their algorithms, or complex formulas, to determine what listings to return for a searcher's query. Wales' answer to a better search experience is to combine a computer algorithm with editors who monitor what results should be returned for any given search. But can a viable search engine rely on the altruistic motives of its volunteer keepers...
Leitner wowed the crowd by presenting his overall portfolio approach, which although systematic and rigorous rules out nothing. He has been known to take positions in Turkish glassmaking stocks, Serbian construction stocks and inflation-index-linked housing bonds in Iceland. Today he says he has no dominant positions and cites certain themes such as insurance providers in emerging markets and food. In the latter, he likes beneficiaries of cheap agriculture and protein, noting opportunities in Argentina GDP warrants, Brazil broadly and fertilizer companies in Taiwan. In equities he likes Serbia, Macedonia, Malaysia and the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries...
...fact, Dimitrijevic thinks emerging-market equities may eventually trade at a premium to developed-market equities. His biggest trade, however, is to buy the Taiwan equity index and pay Taiwan interest-rate swaps to finance it. The audience pounces: Why would an emerging-market specialist rate Taiwan, a market no longer "emerging"? Relative value is the answer. "Against the broader world backdrop, Taiwan is cheap," Dimitrijevic contends, "and financing in Taiwan is ridiculously cheap." Taiwan doesn't share the deflationary problems of neighboring Japan, so long-term interest rates of just over 2% seem crazy, he explains...