Wikia Search was a short-lived free and open-source web search engine launched by Wikia, a for-profit wiki-hosting company founded by Jimmy Wales and...
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Fandom (website) (redirect from Wikia, Inc.)
Fandom (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia) is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series...
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plans search engine to rival Google". The Times. London. Archived from the original on December 27, 2006. Retrieved January 6, 2007. Wales: Search Wikia Will...
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Volunia Wikia Search (defunct) WiseNut World Wide Web Worm List of academic databases and search engines List of web directories Search aggregator Search engine...
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Wales announced that Wikia, then developing an open-source search engine called Wikia Search, had acquired Grub from LookSmart. Wikia, now called Fandom...
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A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages, and other relevant information on the Web in response to a user's query. The...
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Web crawler (redirect from Search engine spider)
Solr or Elasticsearch. Grub was an open source distributed search crawler that Wikia Search used to crawl the web. Heritrix is the Internet Archive's archival-quality...
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Jimmy Wales (section Wikia and later pursuits)
encyclopedia, Wikipedia, and the for-profit wiki hosting service Fandom (formerly Wikia). He has worked on other online projects, including Bomis, Nupedia, WikiTribune...
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in the social search space include Sproose, Mahalo, Jumper 2.0, Scour, Wink, Eurekster, and Delver. Former efforts include Wikia Search. In 2008, a story...
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and Zoom. In 2007, Miller became the technical lead for Wikia Search, an open-source search engine initiative. He later co-founded Singly, Inc. in 2010...
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Apache Nutch (category Internet search engines)
original on 2010-01-07. "New CC search UI". Creative Commons. 2006-08-02. "Where can I get the source code for Wikia Search?". Archived from the original...
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Wikiseek (category Domain-specific search engines)
the search engine may cause confusion with the Wikia search engine that had been announced the month previous to Wikiseek's launch. "Wikipedia Search Engine...
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retrieved 2023-06-06 Russell, Terrence (2008-01-07). "Jimmy Wales on Wikia Search's Lukewarm Reveal". Wired News. Conde Naste Publications. Retrieved 2009-10-26...
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Distributed web crawling (redirect from Distributed search)
LookSmart is the largest search engine to use this technique, which powers its Grub distributed web-crawling project. Wikia (now known as Fandom) acquired...
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Uncyclopedia (redirect from Uncyclopedia.wikia.com)
"Wikia is now Fandom powered by Wikia". Community Central. Wikia, Inc. Retrieved October 5, 2016. "Forks in the road – Uncyclopedia moving from Wikia,...
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by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley Starling in 2004 and formerly known as Wikia, is a well-known example of a wiki-hosting service. This comparison of wiki...
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MediaWiki (redirect from Cirrus-search)
Foundation's other projects. Fandom, a wiki hosting service formerly known as Wikia, runs on MediaWiki. Other public wikis that run on MediaWiki include wikiHow...
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original on December 12, 2024. Retrieved December 29, 2024. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/b7cb04f8-057e-47fd-9421-78e636c6af30/scale-to-width/755 キミとアイドルプリキュア♪...
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referred to as the acronym SLATES by Andrew McAfee: Search Finding information through keyword search. Links to other websites Connects information sources...
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from the "Barney's World" article on the Barney Wiki at Fandom (formerly Wikia) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0...
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based in Memphis, Tennessee. Its primary work is collecting Wikipedia and Wikia articles and selling them as printed and downloadable books. Book Publishers...
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Guidance". Search Engine Land. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2019. Vance, Ashlee (27 July 2007). "Wikia snatches open search software...
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Editor Page". Wikia. Retrieved 23 February 2010. "Debian – Package Search Results – freeciv-client-". "Freeciv – Translations". Wikia. Retrieved 19 April...
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"Gameplay modes" article on the escapefromtarkov wiki at Fandom (formerly Wikia) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0...
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AOL CEO Jon Miller in acquiring Fandom (formerly Wikia, Inc.). Miller was named co-chairman of Wikia, alongside Jimmy Wales, and TPG Capital director...
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from the "Vicky Green" article on the Hollyoaks wiki at Fandom (formerly Wikia) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0...
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MediaWiki OwnCloud PythonAnywhere RStudio Tumblr (theme editor) WaveMaker Wikia (CSS editor) Lines IDE HirenJS Code Editor Comparison of JavaScript-based...
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the plugins was discontinued in favor of a purely web-based interface. Search Wikia featured integration with Polar Rose. Polar Rose founder Jan Erik Solem...
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company. Harris holds several patents from his previous work at Apple, Wikia, Apture, and Google. Harris left Google in December 2015 to co-found the...
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derived from the "Surekill" article on the X-Files wiki at Fandom (formerly Wikia) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0...
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