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"Every time I review a new search engine I am instantly reminded of how well Google works. Firing a couple of random keywords into the (admittedly early alpha) version of Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales' search project, and it takes less than a second to notice that Google is, simply put, better. And we're not talking \"a little better\" - we're talking about a different league here. One simple example: type Wikipedia into it, and you'll get the German version as the first result, with the English version (which is of course the first result on Google) nowhere to be seen. \nNow, being worse than Google is not that big of a deal for Wikia. Jimmy Wales himself explained that this is a project that will grow better as people use it. But the problem is that Wikia Search, even beyond a lackluster search engine, doesn't offer all that much. Some search results will yield a \"mini article\" which explains the term in a couple of words, and often you'll see profiles of people somehow related to whatever you're searching for on the right hand side. You can also create your profile, which gives a social networking component to Wikia Searcg; but again, as far as social networks go, it doesn't offer anything new. \n\n\nWhat we can - and should - compare Wikia to is Mahalo, and it simply blows Wikia Searchaway. Besides offering much better search results, and actually delivering on the \"human\" element of search, it has a lot more options, a better integrated social component, hell, it even looks better. \nThis is the part where I should list all of Wikia Search's good sides , but the harsh reality is that there is simply nothing to describe. Sure, you can change visual elements like skins and  other minutiae in the preferences, but the big problem is that Wikia Search doesn't have a clearly recognizable concept behind it. Its idea of a human-powered search boils down to the ability to vote on search results; a simple feature seen in hundreds of other search engines, for example AfterVote. In fact, this little known project is also miles ahead of Wikia Search as far as options go. \nAll in all, Wikia Search looks like something that was cooked by two guys in one month in a basement, and as such, it blends in well with the thousands of other mediocre search engines out there. Will it grow into something better? Perhaps; but today, it's simply irrelevant."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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