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 ...

Jimmy Wales has pulled the plug on Wikia Search which he hoped would do for search what Wikipedia did for research. The service — which allowed users to influence relevancy by voting URLS up and ...

Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales' long-shot attempt at disrupting Google's search-engine dominance, is closing on Tuesday. Wales, the Wikipedia founder, made the announcement in his blog, saying that ...

Jimmy Wales announced plans to develop the search engine, to be named “Wikiasari,” or “Wikia,” for short, in a Dec. 23 online posting. The Wikimedia Foundation of St. Petersburg ...