Wicked Search

"We're going to get a bunch of people together on the Internet, and we're going to kick [Google's] butts. That's cool, right? I think it's cool."
"Search is a fundamental part of the infrastructure of the Internet and therefore it is a fundamental part of culture and human society as a whole"

"Today marks a significant, albeit initial step in our project to build a search engine [...] For the better part of the past year we've been working in the background to get to the stage we're at today -- an open-to-everyone alpha. We expect Wikia Search to be like fine wine in that it will get better and better as time goes by and more and more people contribute. I've said before that Internet search must be more open and transparent and today marks a major milestone in our mission to make it just that."

-Jimmy Wales

"We believe that a completely open foundation must drive the future of search, following the same principles as the Internet and Web that it builds upon [...] Search is becoming one of the most powerful tools humankind has ever created -- only transparency and open participation will protect these tools from abuse."

-Jeremy Miller

Today, we announce the public launch of what makes history in the sense of making a new search engine driven by the policy an philosophy of the OpenSource: enter WikiaSearch.