Wikipedia Founder Releasing Wikia Search

Wiki-hosting company, Wikia, is set to release Wikia Search, a community driven search engine, on Monday. Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales, who is behind this says the goal is to let volunteers improve search technology collectively, the way Wikipedia lets anyone add or change entries, regardless of expertise.

Wikia Search's tag line is "building a new open global search engine" and is focused on enabling transparency in how the search systems and algorithms work, crowdsourcing so everyone is able to contribute, improving the relevancy and accuracy of search results, and protecting users' privacy by not storing or transmitting any identifying data. Wikia Search will launch with only about 50-100 million indexed webpages which is a fraction of the billions of pages indexed by major search engines.