When asked whether the project was "formally announced", he said it was partly planned and partly a response to news coverage. He said that funding received from was not specific to the search project and also restated that Wikia and Wikipedia have separate management, even though they shared three key stakeholders. In a later interview, Wales attempted to clarify several issues.
The result was extensive media coverage in multiple languages, in outlets like The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, and online editions of Forbes and Business Week publishing the statement as an announcement, encouraging the company to re-brand and relaunch its previous search engine proposal under the temporary name of "Search Wikia". On December 23, 2006, Wales made a passing comment regarding the possibility of a wiki-based internet search. The roll-out version of the search interface was widely criticized by reviewers in mainstream media. Wikia Search followed other experiments by Wikia into search engine technology and officially launched as a "public alpha" on January 7, 2008.
QWIKI SEARCH ENGINE FREE
Wikia Search was a short-lived free and open-source web search engine launched by Wikia, a for-profit wiki-hosting company founded in late 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley.
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