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 ...

The founder of Wikipedia has pulled the plug on a community-driven search tool designed to compete with Google and Yahoo and other search engines. Wikia Search was launched last January with the lofty ...

Update 12/25/06: Jimmy Wales says this isn’t a Wikiasari screen shot. So what is it? The Times reported earlier today that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is planning to launch a new search engine next ...

Today Wikipedia’s creator Jimmy Wales officially released the alpha version of Wikia Search, an open-source search engine that will integrate users’ contribution with computer algorithms. And it will ...

It’s officially war between Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Less than a month after Google began testing Knol, a user-edited online encyclopedia designed ...

Wikia Search is to take on the big three search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) in the next couple of weeks. With the dominance of the top three, it is going to take nothing short of a miracle to ...

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.

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales built the fifth most-popular Web site by having volunteers post and edit encyclopedia entries. Now, he's using the same approach to challenge Google Inc.'s dominance of ...

It was eleven months ago that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales first mentioned his vision for a people-powered search engine that would eventually launch under his for profit startup, Wikia. But the ...

Two new search engines that have garnered attention in the press as possible https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Google+Inc..html slayers continue to trail the world’s ...