Nowadays, with more than two million articles in English alone, Wikipedia is an important ... Wales expects his new Internet search engine, Wikia Search, an early version of which is being ...

Learn More. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on March 31 pulled the plug on Wikia Search, a community-based search engine that relied on user participation to rank results. “While I personally ...

Wikia — which has helped groups set up thousands of Wikipedia-style sites on topics ranging from popular TV shows to specialist health or travel — plans to develop an "open source" Web search ...

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 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 ...

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. Skip to main content ...

Jimmy Wales, the famous founder of Wikipedia, on Monday unveiled his new project with an unusual caveat. He warned that the quality of Wikia Search, a new open-source search engine edited by ...

Wikipedia launches Wikia Search, an online search engine to be run by volunteers. Users can rate how helpful results are. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzer discusses how the nonprofit ...

Case in point: Jimmy Wales’ Wikia Search and rival Powerset, which is using Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia project Wales founded, to argue that its semantic engine represents the future ...

Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, publicly launched the alpha version of Wikia Search in January. At that time, only those who signed up and got an account could make changes to search results.

Wikipedia founder ... of an open-source search engine that he hopes could challenge the dominance of market-leaders Google and Yahoo. The project is being run through Wikia, a for-profit company ...