Today Wikipedia’s creator Jimmy Wales officially released the alpha version of Wikia Search, an open-source search engine that will integrate users’ contribution with computer algorithms. And ...

Wikia Search, the Jimbo Wales-backed open-source search project, officially launches today after a year of development. Wales, a Wikipedia co-founder, wants to "do cool stuff" by launching the ...

Wales told attendees at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention that the Wikia search service will combine computer-driven search algorithms and the much-needed human involvement that’s currently ...

The new search service will combine computer-driven algorithms and human-assisted editing when the company launches a public version of the search site toward the end of 2007.

After entering a query into Wikia Search's tried-and-true bare start page, results are listed in a pretty basic fashion as well, ranked by the site's algorithm and anything else that testers have ...

Search Wikia, like Wikipedia, will improve only if people help it. The site allows you to rate the search engine’s results — you can do so by clicking on the stars that come up next to some links.

The creator of the Wikipedia encyclopedia is turning his attention to search engines. Jimmy Wales, the man behind the collaborative online reference work, is planning to create a "people-powered" ...

Here, we will change all that,” wrote at the site, search.wikia.com. Wales promotes Wikia as “a new kind of search engine, which relies on human intelligence to do what algorithms cannot.” ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is targeting the fourth quarter of this year for the unveiling of an open-source search engine that he hopes could challenge the dominance of market-leaders Google ...