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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 ...

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 ...

San Francisco - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo.

The new features added to Wikia Search give everyone the power that until now only big companies have had, the ability to control what people learn first about you. It's very likely you have even more ...