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 ...

Like Wikipedia, Wales plans to rely on a "wiki" model, a voluntary collaboration of people, to fine-tune the Wikia search engine. When it starts up Monday, the service will rank pages based on a ...

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.” ...