Jun 3

Wikia not long ago announced that their examine supply was at long last near cost using. It is docile to toll bill of fare extra plebiscite sites up to the acclivity of the comb results. In the way that they own acquire resident marketshare they option not buy even spam. On account of they begin effects marketshare last wishes they keep going brilliant to buy enow citizens retained current the enterprise to wrangle fetid spam? Extra who defines what is spam anyhow?

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Apr 6

Wikia Search: Is It Unique Enough To Compete?Writing by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, 7 of January , 2008 at 1:49 pm

This morning I talked about the new Wikia Search search engine. What I didn’t discuss is the real benefit of being included in a search engine’s database. If Wikia is to be successful then it must meet the minimum benefit requirements for search engines and that means providing webmasters as well as searchers with benefits - not just searchers only.

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Dec 18

Wikia Search Needs Improvement, But Still Holds Some Search Engine ValueWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Monday, 7 of January , 2008 at 8:31 am

Jimmy Wales - yes, that Jimmy Wales - has rolled out his latest project: Wikia Search. In other words, search has gone wiki.

I like the idea, but it remains to be seen how this will improve search. Wales is the creator of Wikipedia, which has become popular for its user-generated content. The biggest, and most valuable, criticism of Wikipedia is that the information is not entirely reliable. The concept is based on the idea that errors in knowledge will be corrected by a democratic process wherein any user, or content creator, can make changes or challenge objective information. So far, it’s worked to some degree, albeit not perfectly.

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