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Wikia Search will be opened on January 7th 2008

Friday, January 4th, 2008

New search system Wikia Search, according to PC World, will be opened on January, 7th, 2008.

Project Wikia Search represents a child of company Wikia. Service Wikia Search combines in itself program algorithms of sorting of results and work of moderators-volunteers. Interested persons can bring the contribution to increase of accuracy of results, removal of “garbage” or advertising references, exception of discrepancies and so on.

Now Wikia Search works in a mode of the closed testing. At the initial stage on functionality and quantity indexed sites service hardly can be compared to leading search systems. However eventually accuracy of given out results will grow. Differently, as well as in case of with encyclopedia Wikipedia, utility Wikia Search will increase in process of increase in the contribution.

Jimmy Wales hopes that sooner or later Wikia Search will make competition with Google and Yahoo. Besides Wales plans to make Wikia Search accessible to the foreign companies and the organizations. Interested persons can build on the basis of Wikia Search own specialized services for information search, for example, on the sites.

Since January, 7th to get access to new search system it will be possible to this address.