I’m also gearing up to host the Code Conference in September, and I’ve been thinking a lot about AI, search, and the web ... to begin to solve a singular utility. I think our approach and ...

Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales had tried building a search engine before, but abandoned the Wikia Search project in 2009, saying it had "not been enjoying the kind of success that we had hoped".

Wikia, formerly Wikicities, decided to launch their own search engine in 2008. Unfortunately for Wikia, Wikia Search could never tackle Google or Yahoo! Users weren’t fans of the small index ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he is pulling the plug on the experiment, Wikia Search. In a blog post Tuesday, Wales said the search engine "has not been enjoying the kind of success that we ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he is pulling the plug on the experiment, Wikia Search. In a blog post Tuesday, Wales said the search engine "has not been enjoying the kind of success that we ...

Wales announced in a blog posting that slow traffic and disappointing returns have lead Wikia to discontinue its Wikia Search service. Imagined as a 'user-generated' search engine, Wikia Search ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service.

Wikia Search, a project created by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales with the aim of creating a community-led search engine, has been ditched. He announced the decision to "close the doors" on the project ...

Learn More. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on March 31 pulled the plug on Wikia Search, a community-based search engine that relied on user participation to rank results. “While I personally ...

From Search Engine Land: 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 gave it a poor review.