Will Wikia Search Ever Launch?

Last year in December was when Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia announced they would be launching a human powered search engine and calling it Wikia. Wales said that the results would better than Google or any of the other search engines because humans would make a better quality decision.

Since the announcement of the human powered search engine others have started their own approach to designing one. Maholo was launched in May of 2007 and is already showing quite a growth pattern.

Google has also announced their own version called Knol just this month. It’s clearly a direct result of being annoyed by the Wikia Search announced last year. Wikipedia refuses to advertise Google ads across their pages adding to the frustration of Google.

Will we see the launch of Wikia Search before the end of this year as Wales promised it would be last year? It depends on who you ask. A few days ago a report was published in an IRC chat that proves Wales is wanting to hold good on his promise for the end of year human powered search engine, with it in a private beta version before being released to the public sometime in January 2008. But if you ask the CEO of Wikia, Gil Penchina, as to an exact date of the launch, he simply says that he cannot comment on the timing.

Many internet users are waiting the arrival of Wikia Search so that they may judge for themselves the search results that will be created. The idea of human powered search engine results is something all internet users are interested in, but the final value of Wikia will be decided by actually using it and not by what people hear about it in the news.

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