An alpha version of the Wikia search engine has been unveiled this week and, despite the hype surrounding its appearance, online commentary has been overwhelmingly negative. "Search is part of the ...

Search Wikia search engine has received mixed reviews, to say the least, since launching this morning. We’ve covered some of its business and social aspects and an initial look when it first launched, ...

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 disrupt ...

A slew of search companies have been formed over the years to be “Google killers,” no matter how they’ve described themselves. But many of the start-up companies barely caused a ripple in the ...

Here’s the latest action: 1. Search Wikia could go live by Christmas, to take on Google 2. Nick Denton, the nemesis of Silicon Valley, makes himself editor of Gawker 3. DocStoc, fresh with cash, gives ...

Two full-time employees will lose their jobs as a result of Wikia Search being shut down. Wales noted that Wikia's other projects, including Wikipedia, generate 30 million uniques per month. He still ...

Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales' wiki-based approach to Google slaying, is more than a year old now, but audience measurement firm Hitwise said its traffic is still too small to measure. It's also far from ...

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 ...