Comments on: Wikia Search Is A Complete Letdown.

By: es es

es es — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:31:35 +0000

First of all, it’s barely a search engine at all. It’s based on the open source Nutch software and contains an index of web pages created by Grub (a company Wikia acquired last year)

By: es es

es es — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:31:05 +0000

For those who have been following the rise of Wikipedia – the much hyped Social Search Engine is now live in Alpha Test.

By: beyaz show

beyaz show — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:30:31 +0000

To be fair, CEO Gil Penchina warned me it wouldn’t be a great product at launch. It’s simply a proof of concept of what can be created using open source software and little money, he says. Fair enough. But it’s time for Wales to be quiet, let this thing evolve or not, and eventually let the software do the talking. Eventually Wikia will make the index available to third parties. But the index needs to be reasonably decent before anyone will want it. Wikia has a long way to go to get there.

By: beyaz show

beyaz show — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:29:54 +0000

As anticipated, Wikia Search is yet another social network. User profiles include basic elements like a photo, adding friends, and information about interests and skills

By: sohbet odalari

sohbet odalari — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:28:53 +0000

But beyond the poor search results, there is really no “human” element to the engine at all. That functionality will come later, says Wikia CEO Gil Penchina

By: sohbet odalari

sohbet odalari — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:26:26 +0000

my opinion they are making an index of web and will be opening it to every developer in world

By: Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers - BlogAngle

Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers - BlogAngle — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:02:22 +0000

[...] unlike Wikia Search, the startup’s disappointing attempt at creating a crowd-sourced search engine experience that was shut down by the company a couple of [...]

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Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers | nuze.me — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:18:19 +0000

[...] unlike Wikia Search, the startup’s disappointing attempt at creating a crowd-sourced search engine experience that was shut down by the company a couple of [...]

By: Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers | Design Website Blog

Wikia Seems To Have Found An Audience For Wikianswers | Design Website Blog — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:04:07 +0000

[...] unlike Wikia Search, the startup’s disappointing attempt at creating a crowd-sourced search engine experience that was shut down by the company a couple of [...]

By: A Brief History of Google Killers | Technologizer

A Brief History of Google Killers | Technologizer — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:48:53 +0000

[...] kill Google? No, no really. Wikia Search’s market share was never larger than teensy, and the reviews were lousy. In March, it shut [...]

By: Why an Open Source Search Algorithm is the Answer

Why an Open Source Search Algorithm is the Answer — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:40:00 +0000

[...] Search launched today and while there has been much criticism, their principals make total [...]

By: Reinhard

Reinhard — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:44:28 +0000

Mr. Wales: “so the key here is building a community of trust”.

Like Wikipedia, you mean? Where you can barely trust plain stats from 100 years ago? Try adding anything valuable, but, as you say, “different”, and run your stopwatch to see how long before your facts (not emotions, facts) get removed.

The problem is that Wikipedia cannot be trusted exactly because there are people involved, and this may be true for Wikia, too. Does anybody here remember DMOZ?

By: Jimmy Wales Deadpools Wikia Search | Recopylator

Jimmy Wales Deadpools Wikia Search | Recopylator — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:20:53 +0000

[...] by including new links or moving natural results up the page. The initial launch last year was awful, but the experience improved over time. Still, it never really attracted anything more than a [...]

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By: Wikipedia franchit la barre des dix millions d’articles

Wikipedia franchit la barre des dix millions d’articles — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:24:54 +0000

[...] en version Alpha. A cet égard l’annonce du lancement de Wikia a attiré les foudres de TechCrunch et la réplique savoureuse du fondateur Jimmy Wales dans les commentaires: « When I launched [...]

By: SEOForumz Blog Site -Learn SEO and more.. » Blog Archive » Blogosphere Being Hard on Wikia Search

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:26:22 +0000

[...] I think the blogosphere is being a little hard on Wikia Search. Mike Arrington says that it’s a letdown, Allen Stern at Centernetworks says it’s “not ready yet,” and Stan Schroeder of [...]

By: » Wikia Search : Yet Another Social Network Social Marketing Journal - Social Marketing Blog

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:07:39 +0000

[...] is the case with Wikia Search. Why, even Aaron Wall and Michael Arrington agrees. The not-so-search engine brought about high expectations only to [...]

By: » Wikia Search Needs Improvement, But Still Holds Some Search Engine Value Search Engine Optimization Journal - SEO and Search Engine Marketing Blog

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:49:41 +0000

[...] Wales take the wiki concept and apply it to search? There is some negative feedback already and the project is only days [...]

By: perde

perde — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:56:39 +0000

interesting…

By: Blogosphere Being Hard on Wikia Search | SEO Ranking, Marketing and Tactic

Blogosphere Being Hard on Wikia Search | SEO Ranking, Marketing and Tactic — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:11:41 +0000

[...] I think the blogosphere is being a little hard on Wikia Search. Mike Arrington says that it’s a letdown, Allen Stern at [...]

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:59:40 +0000

I found this new search engine call SupremeSearch.net, I believe that this Search Engine could take on Google.

By: jimconway

jimconway — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:07:42 +0000

If google keeps going to your website and keep taking
your pages down, and do not put your pages in the
search engine, then you should put the following
in your robots.txt file

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-image
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: