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 ...

The long wait for Wikia Search is over with the alpha version of the service now live. As we wrote December 23, Wikia’s Jimmy Wales is pitching the search engine as a Google competitor; its a strong ...

An open-source search engine from Wikia that was launched in alpha test in early 2008. The goal of Wikia Search is to develop a sophisticated search engine using a community-driven approach. Rather ...

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 ...

Wikia Search, a community-driven search engine, will get its first public preview on 7 January, according to co-founder Jimmy Wales. In an email sent to the Wikia Search mailing list on 24 December, ...

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 ...

Wikia, the company created by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, has acquired the Grub distributed indexing system from LookSmart and is preparing to distribute Grub's code under an open-source license.

Wikia Inc., the Internet company started by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, opened its search engine to the public on Monday in a bid to challenge Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. Wikia Search, which lets ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’ve waited more than a year for Wikia to launch their human powered search engine. The project was first announced in December last year by Wikipedia/Wikia founder Jimmy Wales. The promise was to ...