Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch points out that Wikiseek, the new Wikipedia search engine, just went live today.

The idea behind Wikiseek is that it only searches Wikipedia sites and sites that are linked to directly from Wikipedia, which will increase the quality of search results.

A Wikiseek search plugin for Firefox has also been released.

Not everyone feels that Wikiseek is ready for prime yet though. You can go check out Wikiseek yourself to test it out.