An open-source search engine from Wikia that was launched in alpha test in early 2008. The goal of Wikia Search is to develop a sophisticated search engine using a community-driven approach. Rather ...

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 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 ...

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.

“We are aware that the quality of the search results is low,” Search Wikia points out in a bold-faced notice on its site, but the concession isn’t silencing many critics. The new search engine, an ...

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 launch of an early alpha version of the Wikia search engine has impressed few pundits with poor results and missing features, despite Wikia founder Jimmy Wales imploring all not to expect ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would compete with search engines such as Google or Yahoo. Subscribe to ...

Googleis working on a new Internet encyclopedia that will consist of material submitted by people who want to be identified as experts and possibly profit from their knowledge. The concept, outlined ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Google is working on a new Internet encyclopedia that will consist of material submitted by people who want to be identified as experts and possibly profit from their knowledge. The ...

The Wikia project to create an open source search engine akin to Wikipedia has acquired the Grub Web crawler and has released it under an open source license Wikia’s project to develop an open source ...