•Wikipedia founder pulls the plug on search project TechSpot By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com Wikipedia has been one of the most successful endeavors in the history of the Internet, but its crowd-sourcing nature apparently doesn’t apply well to web searches as founder Jimmy Wales has now pulled the plug on Wikia ...
•Wikipedia kills Google rival PC Advisor, UK Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia has closed its search engine Wiki Search, which it had hoped would rival Google. Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, made the announcement in his blog, saying that Wikia Search, which launched in January 2008 , failed to ...
•Wikipedia kills Google rival ComputerworldUK, UK By Juan Carlos Perez Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, has closed its search engine Wiki Search, which it had hoped would rival Google. Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, made the announcement in his blog, saying that Wikia Search, which launched in ...
•Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Declares Wikia Search Dead eWeek, NY By Nicholas Kolakowski Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia Search, a community-based search engine, is officially shutting down. Unlike Google, whose search relies on algorithms, user ratings and input determined the results ranking in ...
•Wikipedia founder pulls plug on search startup SmartBrief, DC Wikia Search, which was launched 15 months ago by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales as a user-driven would-be rival to search giant Google, is no more. Wales, in a blog posting, said the site had been shuttered but that at some point he would revisit the ...
•Wikipedia Founder Wales Kills Wikia Search PC Magazine by eWEEK Staff While Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales may have cared deeply about wiki-based search, the Internet didn't. On March 31, Wales took down Wikia Search, a community-based search engine that relied on user participation to rank results, ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge Economic Times, India SAN FRANCISCO: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down Wednesday ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge Brisbane Times, Australia Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down Wednesday. ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge The Age, Australia Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down Wednesday. ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge Sydney Morning Herald, Australia Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down Wednesday. ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge WA today, Australia Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down Wednesday. ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google challenge Ninemsn, Australia Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down Wednesday. ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge Ninemsn, Australia Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down Wednesday. ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge Indiatimes, India SAN FRANCISCO: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down Wednesday ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge Times of the Internet, Ohio Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down Wednesday. ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge France24, France Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down Wednesday. ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates SAN FRANCISCO – Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world’s addiction to Google’s Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge Channel News Asia, Singapore SAN FRANCISCO: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down Wednesday ...
•Wikipedia abandons Google challenge Ninemsn, Australia Wikia Search - designed to compete with Google - has been axed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge MSN Indonesia, Indonesia Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down Wednesday. ...
•Wikipedia abandons Google search challenge Total Telecom, UK Founder Jimmy Wales shutters Wikia Search service amid downturn to divert further resources to entertainment, gaming initiatives. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales abandoned the foundering Wikia Search project, started in January 2008 in an attempt to ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge AsiaOne, Singapore SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge Haveeru Online, Maldives SAN FRANCISCO - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down ...
•Wikipedia founder ditches search engine plans Netimperative, UK Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has pulled the plug on his search engine Wikia Search. The Wikia Search project launched in 2006, aiming to create a community-led search engine. The service went live in 2008, letting anyone rate and filter its ...
•Wikipedia founder kills Wikia Search CBC.ca, Canada The founder of Wikipedia has pulled the plug on a community-driven search tool designed to compete with Google and Yahoo and other search engines. Wikia Search was launched last January with the lofty aim of creating a new search engine that, ...
•Wikipedia gives up Google challenge MyADSL, South Africa Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's Internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down on Wednesday. ...
•Wikipedia founder pulls plug on search experiment Globe and Mail, Canada AP NEW YORK — The dream of bringing the same collaborative approach to the search engine that Wikipedia brought to the online encyclopedia will have to wait. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he is pulling the plug on the experiment, Wikia Search. ...
•Wikipedia founder abandons Google search challenge ABC Science Online, Australia Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008, in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shutdown on Wednesday. ...
•Wikipedia's Wales abandons Google challenge Brisbane Times, Australia Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has abandoned the floundering Wikia Search project, launched in January 2008 in an attempt to break the world's addiction to Google's internet search service. The Wikia Search service was shut down on Wednesday. ...
•Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Declares Wikia Search Dead Tectonic, South Africa Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia Search, a community-based search engine, is officially shutting down. Unlike Google, whose search relies on algorithms, user ratings and input determined the results ranking in Wikia Search. ...
•Wikipedia Abandons Wikia Search Engine It cannot compete with Google Softpedia, Romania By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor Despite being launched only 14 months ago, the Wikia search engine project has now been abandoned by Jimmy Wales, the founder of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, on account of the fact that the small engine could ...
•Wikipedia founder pulls plug on search engine Akron Beacon Journal, OH AP The dream of bringing the same collaborative approach to the search engine that Wikipedia brought to the online encyclopedia will have to wait. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is pulling the plug on the experiment, Wikia Search. In a blog post, ...