Search Engines: Search Wikia
Wikia Search To Close Up Shop
News.com reports that Wikia Search is giving up and closing up shop. Search Wikia launched an alpha release in January 2008, where Chris Sherman...
Wikia Search Releases Third Party Search Enhancement Platform
Wikia Search, the “open source” search engine that launched to great fanfare earlier in the year, has introduced a new platform...
Wikia Introduces “Evolution” Toolbar To Expand Reach To Other Search Engines
Like many before it, most recently Mahalo, Wikia Search has introduced a Firefox toolbar, called “Wikia Evolution,” to expand the...
Search 4.0: Social Search Engines & Putting Humans Back In Search
Previously I’ve covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into...
SMX Social: Just What Did Calacanis Say About SEO & More Recaps
At our SMX Social Media Marketing conference this week, we had a great panel on the future of human powered search. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo,...
SMX Social: Mahalo To Do Microformats, Search Wikia Adds Alpha 0.2 Features & More
News from the first day of our SMX Social Media Marketing conference. Mahalo is now doing microformats as a way to enhance its search results...
Search Wikia: Not Even A Remote Threat To Google
Search Wikia, the open source search engine from Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales’ Wikia, Inc. organization, launched today in an alpha...
Wikia Search Launches Alpha Version
Wikia Search has launched their Alpha version at http://alpha.search.wikia.com/, and boy is it an Alpha launch. Chris Sherman is writing up our...
The Google Challengers: 2008 Edition
Rich Skrenta — who, aside from creating the first computer virus, is more notable to search as a cofounder of the Open Directory Project...
Search Wikia Launches In 2007 With Private Beta
Wikia Search Launches Private Beta; Public Launch On January 7 from TechCrunch has an email sent to a limited number of beta testers, announcing...
Search Wikia Gets Open Source Categorization Software
Hot on the heels of last week’s acquisition of the Grub open source crawler technology, Wikia announced today that Intellisophic has...
Search Wikia Takes Steps To Crawl; Acquires Grub
Wikia, Inc., the for-profit company developing the open source search engine Search Wikia, has acquired Grub, a distributed crawler platform,...
PreFound Relaunches, Tries To Rise Above Social Search Din
The term “social search” is kind of a catch-all category now for a range of companies that are bringing people back into the...
Wikiseek: Leveraging Wikipedia For Web Search, Poorly
The Wikipedia search engine has arrived — Wikiseek — but it’s not the Wikipedia search engine you’re thinking of....
Q&A With Jimmy Wales On Search Wikia
News came out earlier this week that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales had a new project in mind, to build a community-driven...
Wikipedia Founder To Launch Wikiasari Search Engine Early 2007
Founder of Wikipedia plans search engine to rival Google by The Times unveils a new search engine named Wikiasari. The new search engine has...