An alpha version of the Wikia search engine has been unveiled this week and, despite the hype surrounding its appearance, online commentary has been overwhelmingly negative. "Search is part of the ...

Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can disrupt ...

Wikia Search, an open-source search engine, introduced a number of new features yesterday that allow any user to delete, add, highlight, annotate, rate and/or change the order of its natural search ...

You can now get a browser search bar for the open-source Wikia Search engine: Wikia Evolution. A search bar is pretty much a requirement to put an engine in front of ...

The recent debut of Wikia’s new user-powered search engine Wikia Search received a lot of boos from the blogosphere and tech critics, who generally slagged the release as premature and far inferior to ...

Amid warnings by its creators that users shouldn’t expect much yet, an alpha version of open source-based Wikia Search launched Monday with the goal of eventually becoming a user-regulated challenger ...

A slew of search companies have been formed over the years to be “Google killers,” no matter how they’ve described themselves. But many of the start-up companies barely caused a ripple in the ...

The new features added to Wikia Search give everyone the power that until now only big companies have had, the ability to control what people learn first about you. It's very likely you have even more ...

Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales’ long-shot attempt at disrupting Google’s search-engine dominance, is closing on Tuesday. Wales, the Wikipedia founder, made the announcement in his blog, saying that Wikia ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. The ...