Comments on: Wales giving up on Wikia Search

Having determined that it can't cut it in search, the user-generated reference company of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales kills its experimental engine.

[lonestarState]

With Wikia Search, gone you can still create your own customized search engine at BuildaSearch.com

[JCPayne]

Didn't even know about it. It sounds like another Dmoz.org is it? Google does this ranking thing too. If I log into Google it asks what results are good.

[thekohser]

Har-dee-har-har! So, that means my site, MyWikiBiz.com -- which Jimmy Wales called "antithetical" to Wikipedia's mission, and which he vowed he'd bad-mouth wherever he saw fit -- and which garnered 25% more unique visitors per month this quarter than did Wikia Search -- has now outlasted not one (OpenServing.com), but TWO failed Jimmy Wales projects since it went live in mid-2006.

Note, my site costs me about $20 a month to run. What seems to be the difficulty with Jimbo's wikis?

[Darryl Snortberry]

if it's pointing to digg for those seeking economic knowledge it should fail.

[thekohser]

Strange. I said from Day One that Wikia Search would not work, because its leader isn't reliable and transparent.

In fact, my letter to the editor of Fast Company appeared in the second issue after the "Google Killer" claptrap cover story.

I got called a "troll", for being right. Once again.

Maybe people will start listening to me now?

http://www.mywikibiz.com/Criticism_of_Jimmy_Wales

http://www.mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikipedia