Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can ...

Wales, however, acknowledged that Search Wikia is “pretty out there in terms of openness” but is confident that, far from leading to chaos, the broad participation of users will boost ...

The search project is part of Wales’ for-profit company, Wikia Inc., which offers a software platform that anyone can use to build wikis. In a similar way, the Wikia Project will allow other ...

Like other search engines and sites that rely on the so-called "wisdom of crowds," the Wikia search engine is likely to be susceptible to people who try to game the system, by, for example ...

Wales says he hopes to have an index of between 50 to 100 million Websites when the search engine launches. "This is the public launch of a full-scale, high quality search engine," he says.

Wikia Search will roll out on Wednesday a platform that developers can use to create applications for this open-source search engine. Called Wikia Intelligent Search Extensions (WISE), the ...

What makes Wikia search so interesting is the radical departure from standard search engine thinking. Instead of using the resources of a single company to crawl the Web and index the results with ...

Google, for example, uses Google Maps as a widget within its own search results. But Wikia’s approach allows for more innovation, vetted by users.

Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can ...

Wikia Search, the open-source search engine that is the brainchild of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, will begin letting anyone participate in building its index by adding, deleting and rating Web ...