Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales’ long-shot attempt at disrupting Google’s search-engine dominance, is closing on Tuesday. Wales, the Wikipedia founder, made the announcement in his blog, saying that Wikia ...

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 ...

After roughly a year of hype, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has finally unveiled Wikia Search. However, the search project's release seems to be less of an attack on Google and more of a practice run.

Jimmy Wales' user-powered Wikia Search is at last ready for mass consumption. The for-profit search engine that anyone can edit has spent a couple years in development, but the Wikipedia founder may ...

Wikia Inc.’s project to develop an open-source search engine got another boost with the acquisition of the Grub distributed Web crawler, the company announced Friday. Wikia acquired Grub from ...

Amid warnings by its creators that users shouldn’t expect much yet, an alpha version of open source-based Wikia Search launched Monday with the goal of eventually becoming a user-regulated challenger ...

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 ...

Wikia Search, the Jimbo Wales-backed open-source search project, officially launches today after a year of development. Wales, a Wikipedia co-founder, wants to "do cool stuff" by launching the project ...

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 ...

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 ...