Wikia’s New Social Search Engine

Posted by Celia Walter | 15 Jan, 2008

We Find It All: Wikia’s New Social Search Engine
by Woody Evans Posted On January 14, 2008

Wikia, Inc. (www.wikia.com), the for-profit cousin of the Wikimedia Foundation (http://wikimediafoundation.org), launched the alpha release of its new search engine, Search Wikia (http://alpha.search.wikia.com), on January 7. Search Wikia is branded as a "social" search engine, significantly different from the big names in search, such as Google and Ask.com. Wikia is hoping that the open and participatory model will make Search Wikia the place to go for search results of higher quality...

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Social search

Posted by Celia Walter | 15 Apr, 2007

Introduction to social search -

What is social search and why is it such a big deal? Chris Sherman defines it as "Internet wayfinding tools informed by human judgment" and he thinks these tools are responses to the fact that algorithmic search has plateaued...

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