O projecto começou a ser desenvolvido oficialmente há cerca de um ano. A grande novidade deste motor de busca é o facto de, tal como a enciclopédia Wikipedia, dar total liberdade aos utilizadores que vão poder listar e ordenar os resultados das pesquisas efectuadas.
Entretanto o Google anunciou que vai lançar uma rival da Wikipédia, a Knol, que vai dar aos utilizadores a possibilidade de escreverem artigos sobre os assuntos da sua especialização.
Apresentam-se desta forma:
Wikia is working to develop and popularize a freely licensed (open source) search engine. What you see here is our first alpha release. We are aware that the quality of the search results is low.
Wikia's search engine concept is that of trusted user feedback from a community of users acting together in an open, transparent, public way. Of course, before we start, we have no user feedback data. So the results are pretty bad. But we expect them to improve rapidly in coming weeks, so please bookmark the site and return often.
Right now, the most important thing you can do is help with the "miniarticles" that appear at the top of popular search terms. These will vary in purpose according to the circumstance, but the primary uses will be:
Short definitions
Disambiguations
Photos
See also
At the bottom of every page is a linke to "Post bug reports here"... please use that link liberally to give us large amounts of feedback.
I believe that search is a fundamental part of the infrastructure of the Internet, and that it can and should therefore be done in an open, objective, accountable way. This site, which we have been working on for a long time now, represents the first draft of the future of search.
Please feel free to join us, make some friends, and let's try to do something friendly, interesting, and different.
