Wikia Search Upgrades Get Closer

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday June 4, 2008 @03:13AM from the step-in-the-somewhere-direction dept.

Barence writes "Wikia Search has been revamped with a wealth of editing tools, to build on its early promise of being a more open search engine. The firm behind Wikipedia has introduced a wealth of editorial tools allowing users to directly edit and annotate results with text, images and links, as well as spotlight specific searches or even delete a site from the search results, a change which affects everyone who conducts that search in the future." Update: 06/04 17:32 GMT by T : Jimmy Wales wrote to point out that despite his role in founding Wikipedia, Wikia is a completely separate company.

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Wikia is mostly fancruft by Animats · 2008-06-04 06:13 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Despite Wales' hype about Wikia becoming comparable to Google, Wikia is mostly a hosting service for fancruft. The biggest wikis are Star [Trek|Wars|Gate|Craft], the Marvel Comics database, and similar dreck. Wikia's demographic lives in their parents basement.
This is not a basis for a useful search engine.