The Wikia project to create an open source search engine akin to Wikipedia has acquired the Grub Web crawler and has released it under an open source license Wikia’s project to develop an open source ...

Like many before it, most recently Mahalo, Wikia Search has introduced a Firefox toolbar, called “Wikia Evolution,” to expand the site’s reach and engage more users in the process of adding and ...

Search Wikia search engine has received mixed reviews, to say the least, since launching this morning. We’ve covered some of its business and social aspects and an initial look when it first launched, ...

Wikia – a leading provider of community resources for building and organizing free content on every topic – unveiled major next steps in its work to build a new search platform founded on open-source ...

Wikia Search, the new open-source search engine developed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, launched this week to a chorus of critics. The company took a... Wikia Search, the new open-source search ...

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 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 ...