Comments on: Update on Wikia – doing more of what’s working

By: Syncro Manchester

Syncro Manchester — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:30:55 +0000

I really hope you get your attention back to Wikia Search!
Many used it and still want to use it.

By: James

James — Sat, 21 May 2011 11:56:46 +0000

Keep up with the good work. I know this post was few years ago but we do use Wikia alot…

By: israel Escamilla

israel Escamilla — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:24:10 +0000

I would like to continue with your project Wikia Search is this possible and as?

that programs are needed?
tk

By: Google Gurus

Google Gurus — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:50:28 +0000

I, like many others, am saddened by the loss of wikia search, bring it back please! Again, I agree with others in saying that I think it was a marketing issue more than anything as whenever I mentioned wikia search to any of my friends or family for the first time, I was usually met with a puzzled look because they hadn’t heard of it. I think given time, and with a bit of marketing and promotion, it would have caught on. I sincerely hope you can find the budget to bring it back in the future, for the good of the world wide web.

By: ElisabethA

ElisabethA — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:25:54 +0000

A simple idea.

I am a mathematics teacher. I try to use the Web in my course and I meet problems with “games – sex – mistakes”.

One way of avoiding such problems is the use of a dedicated search engine that shows only labeled contents.
The teachers submit themselves (and only teachers) sites whose contents are tested.
We need also a dedicated web browser that prohibits the changings in urls memorised in the browser.

I’m going to ask my supervisors for getting such tools.

What is your idea about that.

Sorry for my english but I am not native (I am french)

Elisabeth

By: Liliana

Liliana — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:17:27 +0000

Yep, that was done today. :) CC-BY-SA is showing all over Wikia now.

By: fatheadsuk

fatheadsuk — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:07:02 +0000

Sad stuff indeed, twitter’s growth is immense to say the least, but it is a shame if other projects do not have such exponential growth they are seen as not as important!

By: Weevil

Weevil — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:09:34 +0000

Too bad about the project, I hope one day it will return (with a vengeance!) in even better and faster shape. For now I’m sticking with ixquick and scroogle although I have to admit that for truly efficienct searches Google’s still number 1… or at least feels like it.

Wishing you best of luck in current & future projects :)

By: Lukas

Lukas — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:41:26 +0000

From my point of view, it is a bad and regrettable decision to discontinue Wikia Search. This was a bold project with high potential, but needed time to develop and gain momentum. Also, it is a fascinating experiment to see whether a community-based, editable search engine might work and in which ways results differ from other websearch approaches.

By: Mariano

Mariano — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:47:00 +0000

sorry for mi English.
I´m very, very sad about this news…
Open source software gives me hope for the future. I see it as an example and inspiration for all disciplines.
When I first enter wikia alpha version I was exited but it was very confusing so decided to wait for the natural changes to come with an open source search engine. Today I decided that I was going to use it any way as mi default Search engine because i´m getting really bad vibes from google, and now I found this…
…so sad, so sad.