Though Wales just shut down Wikia search last March, he still has an interest in social search. We have always considered Wikipedia to be the gold standard to emulate in terms of fostering community involvement and generating substantive content...
I want Search Wikia to work! I'm just not sure wikia.com is going to be the company that does it. The fact that Google continues to display a huge number of Wikipedia listings is a joke. Instead of trying to wipe out Wikipedia, maybe you should...
Wikia Search Requires Your HelpRight now, Wikia is more concept than reality. Wikia Search: Wikia Dream? Wikia Search is a project to *build* a search engine, not a completed search engine. 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 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. Wikia Search: Wikia Dream? Why SEOs Will Kill Wikia Search, Marketing Pilgrim
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...
Search Wikia Launches Open Source, Distributed Crawler Wikia Search Plans Progressing Wikipedia External Links Now "Nofollow" Yesterday, we defined 2007 as "The Year that Search Grew Up. More Search Marketers Weigh in on Paid Links
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...
Wikia, 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. As with Wikipedia, Wales envisions a core group of editors will lead the...
The Search Wikia project seeks to create a search engine based on open-source search protocols and human collaboration, drawing from the concept of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, which is written and edited by a community of volunteer...
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...
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.
Wikia, 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. Speaking at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), Wales announced that...
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Wikia Search Plans ProgressingJimmy Wales continues to press ahead with his search engine plan, saying that collaborative search technology could transform the power structure of the Internet. Amazon seems eager to find an alternative to its...
His plan is to implement a collaborative search model working within Wikia, Inc.which, unlike Wikpiedia, is a commercial company. Wikia has received $4M in investments from angels, as well as a "very large investment" from Amazon.
Amazon seems eager to find an alternative to its dependence on mainstream search providers, investing venture capital in Jimmy Wales' Wikia. Perhaps Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia should have started their credential-checking plan a bit sooner.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales went face to face with Bambi Francisco on today's MarketWatch, and shared more about the concept of Search Wikia, a new social search engine designed to combine algorithmic results with user voting and contribution...
Wikia is Growing - Is Anyone Paying Attention? Founder of Wikipedia Plans Search Engine to Rival Google Webmaster World "Efforts to extract all the golden eggs from the goose invariably kills the goose.
