Jimmy Wales Whacks Wikia Search Posted by Nathania Johnson Mar 31, 2009 Jimmy Wales launched Wikia Search a little over a year ago. Wales said that due to a reassessment of priorities, he's nixing Wikia Search.
I'm not going to "Mahalo it" or "Wikia it" or even go old school and "Lycos it. Cuil isn't the only search engine to face this problem. Microsoft doesn't need to buy Yahoo, they just need a better name for their search engine.
Today, Wikia announced a plethora of new features for users to have their say in how search results should really be. Wikia Search: Wikia Dream? Wikia Search Requires Your Help Search Wikia Launches Open Source, Distributed Crawler
Emerging search engines such as Wikia or Mahalo will further struggle to become viable players in the marketplace. The $44 billion deal would reshape the search engine marketing arena, teaming the number two and three players into a solid number 2.
I want Search Wikia to work! I'm just not sure wikia.com is going to be the company that does it. I mean, everyone's homepage is search engine based these days, isn't it? Additionally, one of the most helpful products/features/services the search...
And Google's best friend, Jimmy Wales, is making headway with Wikia Search, his admittedly “poor” but improving search engine that integrates the philosophies of Wikimedia and user-generated content. Looking at most social search engines, including...
The algorithms could incorporate search history from a searcher's Gmail contacts, or input from human experts, as startups like Mahalo, Search Wikia, Collarity and Eurekster are doing (in different ways).
While Wikia's search engine won't pose a major threat to the existing order, its presence and activist community will cause the major engines to discuss transparency much more openly. Wikia will get some groundswell.
Wikia Search is a project to *build* a search engine, not a completed search engine. Wikia Search: Wikia Dream? Wikia Search Requires Your HelpRight now, Wikia is more concept than reality. How Will Wikia Grow The Index?
Wikia Search Engine To Launch Test Version Jan. Why SEOs Will Kill Wikia Search, Marketing Pilgrim Wikia founder Jimmy Wales said last year that this open source, community-driven program would eventually challenge Google.
Debbie Richman posted two social search engine analyses reviews of Wikia Search that didn't bash Wales and his Build-A Bare Engine Workshop. VentureBeat's Saumil Mehta (product manager, vertical search engine competitor) has the most thorough user...
In today's New York Times, Miguel Helft reports “the Wikia search engine is likely to be susceptible to people who try to game the system, by, for example, seeking to advance the ranking of their own site.
Wikia Search Goes Online Next Week Search Engine Watch Forums "Does anyone know how this is going to work? Beginning to Hate SEO/SEM Blogs Search Engine Watch Forums "Mostly useless hyped-up fluff designed to garner votes from their social media...
Wikia Search Engine To Launch Test Version Jan. Wikia founder Jimmy Wales said last year that this open source, community-driven program would eventually challenge Google. Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine...
Search Wikia Launches Open Source, Distributed Crawler Wikia Search Plans Progressing Kevin Ryan Named VP & Global Content Director, Search Engine Watch and Search Engine StrategiesHappy 10th Birthday Search Engine Watch
Looking at the surge in popularity of social networks like Facebook and Twitter, social elements of networks like Flickr and YouTube, the rise and fall of social news sites like Digg and Netscape, and the beginnings of social search sites like...
As Michael Arrington notes, the timing of the news leads to that conclusion as well, since announcing unlaunched products is not Google's style, yet they felt the need to pre-announce Knols right around the same time that Wikipedia founder Jimmy...
For developers, the project presents a programming challenge that will help both Wikia and the open source communities around search applications like Nutch and Lucene, which Wikia will incorporate into its search engine.
Search Wikia Launches Open Source, Distributed CrawlerWikia, the commercial site led by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is taking the next step toward launching its open source, human-assisted Web search tool, Search Wikia.iRazoo: Human-Powered...
Wikia Search Plans Progressing Below is a recap of major articles from our daily SearchDay newsletter and important Search Engine Watch Blog postings since the last newsletter. Upcoming Search Engine Strategies Events...
