Wales giving up on Wikia Search (The Googlization of Everything)

March 31, 2009 8:00 AM PDT
Wales giving up on Wikia Search
by Rafe Needleman

Wikia is announcing on Tuesday that it is closing the Wikia Search product. The service was intended to be a user-generated search engine, through which users could influence the rankings of results for all other users. ...

Filed under: Like the Mind of God
Posted by Siva Vaidhyanathan, March 31, 2009 12:46 PM

Comments (2)

Andy on April 1, 2009 11:17 AM:

Huh. Interesting. Anyone have any more information about the Wikia Search project? I'm very curious as to how this project evolved and now, apparently, failed...

Seth Finkelstein on April 2, 2009 3:04 PM:

For more information on the Wikia Search project, you might enjoy my columns:

"The politics of search engines"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/24/searchengines.wikipedia

"When you have a Wikipedia, everything looks like an edit"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/08/wikipedia.searchengines

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