A search bar is pretty much a requirement to put an engine in front of users' faces, so this is an expected move by the Wikia Search project. But Wikia Evolution moves the concept into new territory.

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's search engine concept is that of trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way. Of course, before we start, we have no user-feedback ...

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

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 ...

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 has so far been criticised for returning poor and inaccurate results, but Wales has not rushed to its defence; calling the search results available at the moment "pretty bad".

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 ...

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 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 ...

Wikia Search's index is comparatively tiny right now, but its use of easy editing tools, Wikipedia's crowdsourcing strengths, and a completely transparent back-end is a promising new approach to ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would compete with search engines such as Google or Yahoo.