Wikia to launch social search engine — amid a sea of others
Wikia, the San Mateo start-up founded by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, is working on a search engine that will use the same strategy as Wikipedia’s user-reliant encyclopedia.
The project is secretive, but has a preliminary launch date of the first quarter of 2007, the Times of London reports.
Wales says Google’s flaws have become more apparent:
Google is very good at many types of search, but in many instances it produces nothing but spam and useless crap. Try… Continue Reading