Wikia Search is history as Google dominates
Wikipedia co founder Jimmy Wales had launched his ambitious Wikia Search project in 2006 with the aim of providing an alternative search engine to Google.
The aim was to use social intelligence to rank websites on this new search engine.
Apparently, the project failed to gain many users and [...]
Jimmy Wales: Online collaboration is just beginning
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales knows about collaboration on the internet.
He is the man behind the massively successful Wikipedia project which is an open source encyclopedia which enables anyone to add or edit content.
He talked about online collaboration on the web and said that it is just beginning.
Wales said: [...]
Wikia Search opens up to unregistered web users
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has announced that their open source search engine Wikia is now open to all.
Until now, only registered members on the service had the ability to provide feedback to search results helping in improving the quality of the engine.
Now, any web user can participate in [...]
Wikia would be open to public January 7
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has revealed that they would make available Wikia to public next month.
He said in a statement that Wikia Search project has now assembled the basic technologies for a search engine.
The engine would now use feedback from the technology enthusiasts to improve the quality [...]
Wikipedia puts restrictions on creating new articles
Wikipedia has to be one of the best examples of open source online projects. It is a web-based encyclopedia that allows anyone to contribute articles. However, the openness and independence it gives to any web user is now creating problems for the project. Anyone can visit the site, edit [...]
