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 ...

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 ...

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales tried getting into search years ago with the launch of Wikia Search in 2008, but that service shut down just 14 months later. Postscript: For more information, see our ...

ST. PETERSBURG -- If lightning can strike in cyberspace twice, Jimmy Wales wants to find out. Following the success of the nonprofit online encyclopedia he founded, Wikipedia, the St. Petersburg ...

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 Inc.’s project to develop an open-source search engine got another boost with the acquisition of the Grub distributed Web crawler, the company announced Friday. Wikia acquired Grub from ...

Wikia Search, the open-source search engine that is the brainchild of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, will begin letting anyone participate in building its index by adding, deleting and rating Web ...

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 ...