Wikia Inc., the Internet company started by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, opened its search engine to the public on Monday in a bid to challenge Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. 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.

a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia's forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index relevant sites. "If we can get good quality search results, I think it will really change the ...

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikia and driving force behind Wikia Search, fully expected the development of Wikia Search to be a "long-term project." The current economy, however, has forced him to ...

Wikia, the San Mateo start-up founded by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, is working on a search engine that will use the same strategy as Wikipedia’s user-reliant encyclopedia. The project is ...

Even if multiple competitors spring up using the Wikia search engine he’s hopeful the Wikia site can still grab a 2 percent or 3 percent share of the search market and so would become “a ...

Wikia Search has released an interface called Wikia Intelligent Search Extensions (WISE) that lets sites build their search results into custom-made applications. WISE launched Wednesday with a ...

Wikia Search, the human edited search engine which we trashed at launch, continues to make incremental improvements (and thankfully they’ve turned down the “This is a Google-killer” hype ...

The inventor of an instant messaging standard used by Google Talk, Trillian and other online chat services has agreed to help Wikia Inc. develop its open source search engine. Jeremie Miller will ...

Wikia Search a highly anticipated search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales that debuted officially in January, held a 0.000079 percent share of the search market in the U.S. at the end of ...

He warned that the quality of Wikia Search, a new open-source search engine edited by ordinary people, was “terrible.” Across the blogosphere, pundits pounced. But technologists at leading ...