Wikia Search Shut

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

According to Jimmy Wales blog, Wikia Search has shut on March 31, 2009. Wikia had raised funds from well known personalities and it was being promoted as 'open source search'. It did not take off :-(

Does the Government understand cyber space?

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

While the Goverment departments are making some progress on the internet (publishing content, forms, e-filing of taxes) etc they still have a long way to go.

Is a rival of Google coming soon?

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo. Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia's forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index ...