Though Wales just shut down Wikia search last March, he still has an interest in social search. That's what's driving his decision to join Hunch's Board. On his blog, Wales wrote: Hunch.com's combination of community-sourced content and...
Wales said that due to a reassessment of priorities, he's nixing Wikia Search. Jimmy Wales Whacks Wikia Search Posted by Nathania Johnson Mar 31, 2009 Jimmy Wales launched Wikia Search a little over a year ago.
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. Wales hopes to return to his Wikia Search project during future, more profitable times.
Wikia Search: Wikia Dream? My daily search news duties are a bit slow today due to some apparently big government change of power in the nation's capital. So it is with great pride that I share with you a dream I had involving Google last night.
I'm not going to "Mahalo it" or "Wikia it" or even go old school and "Lycos it. Whether its indexing a trillion pages, advancing semantic search, or harnessing social search, everyone's looking for their Unique Selling Proposition.
Wikia Adds Features to its Open Source SearchPosted by Nathania JohnsonIf a search engine allows its users to change the results, is it still called hacking? While many news outlets are saying Wikia's new features allow users to hack results, it's...
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 search world has been abuzz for the last week, since Microsoft launched a takeover bid of Yahoo.
I want Search Wikia to work! I'm just not sure wikia.com is going to be the company that does it. So far, we've shared some New Years Resolutions, and predictions from several search marketers and social media marketers.
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: Wikia Dream? Wikia Search is a project to *build* a search engine, not a completed search engine. 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.
Wikia Search Requires Your HelpRight now, Wikia is more concept than reality. Wikia Search is a project to *build* a search engine, not a completed search engine. Why SEOs Will Kill Wikia Search, Marketing Pilgrim
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...
When Wikia Search was released last night, Jimmy Wales explained they used a "placeholder index" for the search. While this may be appropriate for the alpha search, I'd like to ask Jimmy exactly how Wikia plans to crawl and index a significant...
After midnight on the West Coast, Wikia made its alpha search available. The overall concept is interesting, as relevant search results will ultimately come from the Wikia searchers. In today's New York Times, Miguel Helft reports “the Wikia search...
Wikia Search Goes Online Next Week Search Engine Watch Forums "Does anyone know how this is going to work? What's going on in the search industry? Find out here, with these links to some of the latest topics being discussed in our own Search Engine...
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. Want a snapshot of the day's search marketing news?
