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Wikia Search falls by the search wayside.Posted on 1st April 2009 at 3:03 am by Manley
As of last night, Jimmy Wales has 'closed the doors' on Wikia Search, formally drawing a line under the failed community search offering. When I covered the launch, back at the beginning of last year, I had little faith in the success of the engine from an algorithmic perspective, nor did I hold out much hope for the quality of its results, but I really did not expect to see the offering removed this soon, but Wikia Search now permanently redirects to the Wikianswers question and answer site. The decision was clearly a hard one for Wales, who has always championed projects within the search space, but with Wikia Search reportedly only receiving around 10,000 unique users a month, where Wikia.com is closing on the 4 million mark and the fifth fastest growing member community destination in February, the move to "do more of what’s working, and less of what’s not" has to make sense at this time. The next question is, what does the future hold for Google Knol? [UPDATE: In response to the three emails I have received already (and it is not even 9 o'clock yet), no, this is not an April Fool's joke.] CommentsNo-one has commented so far, or all comments are awaiting moderation. Post Your CommentSubscribeIf you would like to be alerted when there are new comments to read please enter your email address below. RSS 2.0 Feed
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