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- Founder: Jimmy Wales
- Launched January 2008
- Closed down March 31, 2009
- Was a user-controlled search engine
- Built on search indexing service Grub, which was bought by Wikia in 2007
- Grub project was made open source
- Users could refine the search algorithms
- While site doubled growth within year, wasn't generating momentum of other Wikia projects
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Wikia Search was a user-controlled search engine founded by Jimmy Wales. The search engine allows any of its users to rate and filter user-contributed search results.
On March 31, 2009, Wales announced that Wikia Search would be closing down. Wales said that in a "different economy" the project have continued indefinitely. Wales planned on re-directing efforts to other Wikia projects.
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Wikia Search Questions
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Jimmy Wales on the Next Version of Wikia Search | Jimmy Wales... http://tinyurl.com/ylrac4y
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NAVERみたいなことをAsk Jeevesは自動でやろうとして、Wikia Searchはやり方を間違えてあんまりうまくいかなかった
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