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I'm sad to see the doors close on Wikia Search. I was an intern in the NYC office last summer. The project had a refreshingly open philosophy and was built usin

I'm sad to see the doors close on Wikia Search. I was an intern in the NYC office last summer. The project had a refreshingly open philosophy and was built using FOSS components. At least the index is still available at http://index.isc.org/ http://index.isc.org/

thorax 18y ago
Yeah, I was a big fan of the idea. Clearly Google saw the potential, too. I almost wish it wasn't a part of Google. I'd like to have two offerings that are totally different-- one that's 100% pagerank and one that trends towards user-ranked. Right now we're kind of losing out on the latter because Google isn't necessarily taking into account the user rankings across accounts.
breck 18y ago
I'm very surprised it's shutting down. 3M uniques a month and still growing according to Compete. Seems like it would have gotten acquired at the very least.
- smanek 18y ago
  They aren't closing all of Wikia, just "Wikia Search" (which stagnated at 10K uniques/month).
  - breck 18y ago
    Ah, thanks! That makes so much more sense.
michael_nielsen 18y ago
Doesn't look like the index is downloadable in any useful form. The links just lead to what appears to be a moribund mailing list.