Back when Wikia Search first unveiled its alpha preview, we found it wanting. On Tuesday, the site was relaunched, and not only has its index expanded, but the community editing tools are live and ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on March 31 pulled the plug ...

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 ...

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 ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Wikia has added new editing and customization features to ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would compete with search engines such as Google or Yahoo. Wales told a ...

Jabber founder Jeremie Miller has signed on to help develop Wikia's open-source search engine project, the organization announced. The Wikia project aims to develop a search engine, crawlers and other ...