• 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    "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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