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 ...

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".

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales' latest experiment: wiki-style search results. If you do a search on the engine and don't like the results, you'll be able to change them--for everybody.

Note: This post has been updated below. Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, announced today that his for-profit community-hosting site Wikia has deepened its investment in developing an open ...

Wikia search was first announced back in 2006; the following year, it purchased a distributed search indexing service called Grub. In keeping with the emphasis on open information, ...

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 ...

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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 December 24 ...