Comments on: Jimmy Wales: Wikia Search Finally Doesn’t Suck

By: Wikia Search is Cooler… – TechMasai

Wikia Search is Cooler… – TechMasai — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:54:22 +0000

[...] Same story at techcrunch: here [...]

By: Even Social Search Needs an Algorithm: Arguing Against Data Entry As Search Engine | Techno Portal

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:42:45 +0000

[...] to allow for a good or interesting browsing experience. By way of comparison, Wikia Search had indexed about 30 million websites before Jimmy Wales could say with a straight face that the product didn’t suck. Just because [...]

By: Even Social Search Needs an Algorithm: Arguing Against Data Entry As Search Engine « TechCrush.co.uk

Fri, 22 May 2009 12:50:34 +0000

[...] way of comparison, Wikia Search had indexed about 30 million websites [...]

By: Even Social Search Needs an Algorithm: Arguing Against Data Entry As Search Engine

Thu, 21 May 2009 14:04:39 +0000

By: Jimmy Wales Deadpools Wikia Search

Jimmy Wales Deadpools Wikia Search — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:11:21 +0000

[...] 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 trickle of searchers. We are placing it in [...]

By: OCD Late Edition: RIP Jimbo Wales | The Official Chris Duncan Web Site

OCD Late Edition: RIP Jimbo Wales | The Official Chris Duncan Web Site — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:04:07 +0000

[...] Search, was supposed to compete with Google by providing an community-powered search experience. Users could essentially grade the results that they received. Most recently, they added an app platform called WiseAPPS. None of that matters now. Google [...]

By: Gros changement sur Google avec l’intégration de votes et de commentaires sur les résultats de recherches

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:21:47 +0000

[...] fonctionnalité pour finalement juger et déplacer les résultats et laisser des commentaires via Wikia Search. Ces résultats seront donc personnalisés si vous effectuez cette même recherche dans le [...]

By: AcceptMyCash

AcceptMyCash — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:39:36 +0000

yes women in tech are very much golddiggers. I see that first hand everyday…

By: Confirmed: Wikia Cuts 10% Of Workforce

Confirmed: Wikia Cuts 10% Of Workforce — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:19:54 +0000

[...] company is rumored to be bleeding cash, despite its effort to clean up its act in delivering decent search results and its recent addition of an API, opening its engine to anyone [...]

By: Jimmy Wales: The New Wikia Search API “Is Like Facebook Apps For Search Results.”

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:34:26 +0000

[...] regular users can help improve results on Wikia Search by voting individual results up or down, adding in their own links, or submitting [...]

By: Search Engine Goliath, Meet Search Engine David - ErosBlog: The Sex Blog

Search Engine Goliath, Meet Search Engine David - ErosBlog: The Sex Blog — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:30:19 +0000

[...] the TechCrunch article where I learned of today’s relaunch, and there’s also a short video there explaining [...]

By: New Microsoft Like The Old Google, Apple Behaving Like Old Microsoft, Google Presently Losing Focus? | ToMuse: wonderings of a Web consumer

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:54:56 +0000

[...] a near clone of Digg’s commenting system within their search interface and adopted Wikia’s people powered system for ranking its search results. All of this has me thinking that Microsoft is becoming more like the old innovative Google we [...]

By: ASh

ASh — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:48:57 +0000

http://www.info...-ganarle-google

By: ASh

ASh — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:42:15 +0000

Here he talks about Wikia beating Google … in spanish but it works: http://www.info...-ganarle-google

By: Mahalo Has Competition (YouBundle Secret Screen Shots)

Mahalo Has Competition (YouBundle Secret Screen Shots) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:08:47 +0000

[...] does all the work. So in this sense it is more akin to Topicle or Wikia Search. The latter is a slightly different beast, since it truly is an algorithmic search engine whose results are re-ordered and modified by the [...]

By: Rudiger

Rudiger — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:38:51 +0000

Although the editing features are important, I think you should discuss what I believe is the most important feature.

We can now create our own set of robust and transparent ranking “algorithms” for search. I can’t wait to see the literally infinite possibilities.

By: Wikia Search Relaunches, Sucks No More? - Rev2.org

Wikia Search Relaunches, Sucks No More? - Rev2.org — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:06:19 +0000

[...] site Wikia first launched, it pretty sucked. Even Jimmy Wales himself, founder, admitted to TechCrunch that “it has not been usable on a day to day basis.” Well, they’ve relaunched [...]

By: NickeyD

NickeyD — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:47:36 +0000

In long term sense, I like Wikia’s approach. Makes you feel like you’re part of the system.

By: More innovations in search… « PlayerSearch Blog

More innovations in search… « PlayerSearch Blog — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:40:16 +0000

[...] is a good TechCrunch article on the latest updates to Wikia Search. Michael Arrington hammered Jimmy Wales on his first release of Wikia Search because it fell [...]

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:45:33 +0000

People might enjoy my column on the reasoning behind Wikia Search:

“When you have a Wikipedia, everything looks like an edit”

http://www.guar...a.searchengines

“But the idea that these simple systems can be applied to deep value-laden social problems, of politics, or even relevant search results, is like trying to use a hammer to turn screws on the basis that it works so well to hit nails.”

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:32:54 +0000

@48, he has money. Most women in tech are gold diggers.

Gold diggers + gold = request filled.

They’ll just close their eyes and imagine it’s somebody else.

By: amelia

amelia — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:11:11 +0000

PS Man is Jimbo Wales ever an ugly sumfabitch

http://www.flic...nge/2086757845/

Jesus. How does this retard get any girl at all?

By: amelia

amelia — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:00:51 +0000

Here we go again

ANY thread on ANY website about Wales ends up being about his hot girlfriend. Why? BECAUSE JIMBO WALES IS BORING!

And Wikia Search still sucks.

That is all.

By: Valleywag

Valleywag — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:59:08 +0000

@43 You’re the same michaellamb who stalks Marsden on Valleywag and posts about how “ugly” and “old” you think she is. Give it up, man. No one agrees with you except your sockpuppets.

By: Chris Levant

Chris Levant — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:57:15 +0000

@43 Dude ur blind? She’s only 33 according to the wikipedia article about her and she’s hot as hell, even in that pic with no makeup.

@42 Ur delusional.