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==Wikia Search==

==Wikia Search==

Jimbo's venture into the search engine market was much-ballyhooed by the tech media, but after only an 18-month effort, Wales pulled the plug on the failure that was Wikia Search.  Evidence was clear early on that it would [http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/2008/10/the.html not be a success].  But even as late as March 2009, Wales [http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/22475.asp deceived reporter Susan Kuchinskas] with the assurance, "''I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.''"  Merely days later, Wales would face reality, fire the people he'd employed to try to make this pig fly, and shut down the site.

Jimbo's venture into the search engine market was much-ballyhooed by the tech media, but after only an 18-month effort, Wales pulled the plug on the failure that was Wikia Search.  Evidence was clear early on that it would [http://andrewkeen.typepad.com/the_great_seduction/2008/10/the.html not be a success]. One award-winning technologist opined on the $50,000 cost of Wikia's purchase of Grub crawler technology, but Jimmy Wales had a succinct [http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001299.html retort] for Seth Finkelstein: "Seth, you're an idiot." But even as late as March 2009, Wales [http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/22475.asp deceived reporter Susan Kuchinskas] with the assurance, "''I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.''"  Merely days later, Wales would face reality, fire the people he'd employed to try to make this pig fly, and shut down the site.

 

 

== See also ==

== See also ==

* [[Wikipedia]]

* [[Wikipedia]]