Wikia Search, an open-source search tool launched early this year by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, today opened its platform with a new application programming interface (API) that allows individuals ...

A slew of search companies have been formed over the years to be “Google killers,” no matter how they’ve described themselves. But many of the start-up companies barely caused a ripple in the ...

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After months of talk and a few weeks of invitation-only testing, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has set January 7th as the public test launch date for its community-driven search project, Wikia Search.

An open-source search engine from Wikia that was launched in alpha test in early 2008. The goal of Wikia Search is to develop a sophisticated search engine using a community-driven approach. Rather ...

Dan Lewis, developer for the user-edited search engine Wikia, was researching a recall on a car seat, and pasted what he found on the search for "marathon recall." Later on, he had to look up more ...

Inexcusable waste of time. Huge disappointment. Crappy. Those were some of the more politely expressed sentiments that greeted the Jan. 7 launch of Wikia Search, a new Internet search engine conjured ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would compete with search engines such as Google or Yahoo. Wales told a ...