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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@jasoncalacanis you posted this question in june of 2007, did the answers help you reach your goals or are you still working on them?(2 Answers)
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These were asked as much to engage smart people in our mission as they were to get actual ideas. We got a huge response to these type of ...
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Founder
Jimmy Wales
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Launched January 2008
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Closed down March 31, 2009
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Was a user-controlled search engine
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Built on search indexing service Grub, which was bought by Wikia in 2007
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Grub project was made open source
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Users could refine the search algorithms
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While site doubled growth within year, wasn't generating momentum of other Wikia projects
