Wikia, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales’s for-profit initiative that allows users to create their own wikis on any subject matter they fancy, has been seeing strong growth in the last six months and is now profitable. In the past year, user numbers have more than doubled, going from 2.8 million unique visitors in ... |
9 September 2009
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Despite being launched only 14 months ago, the Wikia search engine project has now been abandoned by Jimmy Wales, the founder of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, on account of the fact that the small engine could not measure up with giant Google. The project, which was officially shut down on Wednesday, was in... |
2 April 2009
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The attendees at the DLD conference, in Munich, were given a treat when Fortune's David Kirkpatrick hosted a talk dubbed "Humans Disrupting Algorithms", who had Mahalo's Jason Calacanis and Wikia Search's Jimmy Whales in the hot seats. They both gave quite an interesting presentation of their products,... |
22 January 2008
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It's going to be a competitor to Google, they said. It's going to have human element, they said. It will not be as great when it will be released, but it is open source and it will have enormous possibilities to grow, they said. Well, at least they got part of the last one right. It's not in the same z... |
7 January 2008
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Some time ago, Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder, had a somehow crazy attitude when he sustained that Google and Yahoo might lose an important amount of users if a new search technology is rolled out. Well, it seems like he knew what he was talking about because Wikia Search, the Wikipedia's search technology, ... |
4 September 2007
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