Wikia Search, an open-source search tool launched early this year by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, today opened its platform with a new application programming interface (API) that allows individuals ...

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 ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google Inc. and other search engines face far more than just a new rival in Wikia Inc., they face the prospect of hundreds, even thousands of new competitors. The entire search engine project Wikia is ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is trying out the technique that succeeded in putting together an online encyclopedia—opening it up so that anyone can edit it—to improving search results. Wales' ...

Back when Wikia Search first unveiled its alpha preview, we found it wanting. On Tuesday, the site was relaunched, and not only has its index expanded, but the community editing tools are live and ...

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 ...