Wikia lets companies add their widgets as search results
If you want the most useful information possible to appear in response to a search, why not allow information portals like the community news aggregator Digg and travel site Kayak add it themselves? Search Wikia is opening itself up to allow companies to do just that, by adding their own widget to search results.
Wikia was started by Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales in 2006 to try to take monetary advantage of the user contributions that drove… Continue Reading
Search Wikia returns for more punishment with new features
It seems that all major new search engines undergo a somewhat similar birth. For months before they’re seen, they’re hyped, and anticipation builds to a fever pitch. The phrase “Google Killer” is inevitably bandied about. Then they’re released … to mass disappointment. The crowd disperses, at which point the true work can begin.
That’s more or less what happened to Search Wikia, the commercial counterpart to Wikipedia. Search Wikia proposes to improve search results through direct… Continue Reading
Search Wikia takes a step closer to the promise of ’search meets Wikipedia’
When the guy behind Wikipedia launches a search engine, the world is going to watch. And watch they did when Jimmy Wales unveiled Search Wikia in January — perhaps a little too closely. I say that because while some were expecting to see a “Google-killer“, the site we saw was a bare-bones engine in the very early alpha testing stage.
But now, it’s getting closer.
I got a chance to play with some of the upcoming changes… Continue Reading
Search Wikia gets slammed, here’s our review
Search Wikia search engine has received mixed reviews, to say the least, since launching this morning.
We’ve covered some of its business and social aspects and an initial look when it first launched, but have since had more time to tinker with it.
The harsh reviews resulted in Search Wikia putting up a temporary disclaimer at its home page, http://search.wikia.com, conceding that the quality of its search results is poor (screenshot below). This was not the case… Continue Reading
Search Wikia launches: Will it threaten Google?
[Update: See our subsequent post here, which includes a deeper look, after Search Wikia gets slammed by other initial reviews]
Search Wikia, a new search engine site, has launched publicly after two weeks of private testing.
The search engine has been highly anticipated for its unique, open-source approach to search as well as its high profile founder, Jimmy Wales (pictured here), who has led online encyclopedia coverage).
We spoke with Wales under embargo last week about his plans.
This… Continue Reading
Wikia to launch new social search engine, more on Monday
Search Wikia, the highly anticipated search engine by Wikia, the for-profit company of Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, will launch publicly on Monday. It is currently in private testing mode, and we’ll write more upon launch.
The huge success of Wikipedia in mobilizing humans makes this project particularly notable. It’s a fascinating alternative to Google’s computer-focused approach.
We’ve tested Grub, the service’s way of crawling the Internet’s web sites to collect data. Grub is a “distributed search crawler,”… Continue Reading
Roundup: Search Wikia to take on Google, Adready, Ideeli, EyeQ, more
Here’s the latest action:
1. Search Wikia could go live by Christmas, to take on Google
2. Nick Denton, the nemesis of Silicon Valley, makes himself editor of Gawker
3. DocStoc, fresh with cash, gives away $50 Amazon gift certificate daily to user uploading best quality docs
4. AdReady, the Seattle advertising startup offering online banner ads, raises $10M more
5. Why Google is going after Wikipedia
6. EyeQ, tracks contributions of developers to projects
7. Ideeli, a invite-only Web retailer for… Continue Reading