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“Wiki” Isn’t Necessarily a Magic Word

Yesterday Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that he will shut down his new(-ish, it’s about a year old or so) search engine, Wikia Search:

“… our project, Wikia Search, has not been enjoying the kind of success that we had hoped. In a different economy, we would continue to fund Wikia Search indefinitely. It's something I care about deeply. I will return to again and again in my career to search, either as an investor, a contributor, a donor, or a cheerleader. But for now, we will be closing the doors on the Wikia Search project (as of March 31, 2009) and will be re-directing and refocusing resources on other Wikia.com properties …”

Personally, I think that most of the next-gen search engines are junk, with the exception of SearchMe. And since many people are using Facebook and Twitter as search tools, we probably won’t see a whole lot of new general-purpose search engines coming down the road any time soon.

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Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on April 01, 2009 (boomark / email).