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 [...]

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 [...]