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 ...

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 ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday that 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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would compete with search engines ...

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

After months of talk and a few weeks of invitation-only testing, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has set January 7th as the public test launch date for its community-driven search project, Wikia Search.

Last Friday, Wikipedia founder and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia had acquired Grub, a Web crawler that utilizes unused computer processing time on users’ computers to crawl the ...

When Jimmy Wales co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 and called the site, which carried only a few articles then, a free encyclopedia, not many people took him seriously. Nowadays, with more than two million ...

Dan Lewis, developer for the user-edited search engine Wikia, was researching a recall on a car seat, and pasted what he found on the search for "marathon recall." Later on, he had to look up more ...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 27 (Reuters) - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would compete with search ...

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 ...