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, 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 ...

The recent debut of Wikia’s new user-powered search engine Wikia Search received a lot of boos from the blogosphere and tech critics, who generally slagged the release as premature and far inferior to ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Jimmy Wales co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 and called the site, which carried only a few articles then, a free encyclopedia, not many people took him seriously. Nowadays, with more than two million ...

San Mateo-based Wikia Inc.’s new open-source search platform is now open to the public in its first alpha release at www.wikia.com following a brief private testing period. The Wikia Search project ...