Unfortunately, that didn’t work out so well for Wikia Search. The wiki-style search engine started by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is closing down, Webware first reported earlier today.

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 ...

Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales’ long-shot attempt at disrupting Google’s search-engine dominance, is closing on Tuesday. Wales, the Wikipedia founder, made the announcement in his blog, saying that ...

Wikia Search was launched last January with the lofty aim of creating a new search engine that, in the words of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, "relies on human intelligence to do what algorithms ...

Wikia Search was first announced back in 2006 and later Wales outlined some of the key features, the human-ranking aspect but also the mini-Wiki and social networking features. While the social ...

Like Wikipedia, Wales plans to rely on a "wiki" model, a voluntary collaboration of people, to fine-tune the Wikia search engine. When it starts up Monday, the service will rank pages based on a ...

Wikia Search was announced at the end of 2006, but it wasn't clear at the time how the system would work (the for-profit Wikia is not affiliated with Wikipedia).

Wikia Inc., the Internet company started by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, opened its search engine to the public on Monday in a bid to challenge Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

Wikia, the company created by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, has acquired the Grub distributed indexing system from LookSmart and is preparing to distribute Grub's code under an open-source license.

Search Wikia, the open source search engine from Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales’ Wikia, Inc. organization, launched today in an alpha version.

Wikipedia now has very few outbound links that are honored by search engines, and all of these links are either to other Wikipedia properties, or other wikis via the inter-wiki special links.

Wikia--which has helped groups set up thousands of Wikipedia-style sites on topics ranging from popular TV shows to specialist health or travel--plans to develop an "open source" Web search ...