Wikia’s project to develop an open source search engine got another boost with its acquisition of the Grub distributed Web crawler, the company announced Friday.

Wikia Search has so far been criticised for returning poor and inaccurate results, but rather than rushing to its defence, Wales has called the search results available at the moment "pretty bad ...

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 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, which ...

This week, Wikia Search launched many new features — including the ability for users to edit results, add new results, delete results and rate results — to mostly positive reviews from ...

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 ...

Back when Wikia Search first unveiled its alpha preview, we found it wanting. On Tuesday, the site was relaunched, and not only has its index expanded, but the community editing tools are live and ...

Wikia Search, a community-driven search engine, will get its first public preview on 7 January, according to co-founder Jimmy Wales. In an email sent to the Wikia Search mailing list on 24 ...

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 ...

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 ...