Summary: Wikia announced Wikia Search product was closing. The service was aiming to users could influence the rankings of result for all other users. However, it wasn’t on the right trajectory. On the other hand, Wikia’s other projects, Wikia Answers, are growing very quickly. Jimmay Wales, founder of Wikia said that he would return to Wikia search product again when the economy was good.
In November, Google launched Search Wiki, a feature that lets users prioritize, erase, supplement, and annotate search results. Google remembers the changes a user has made to search results via SearchWiki, so results for repeat searches will reveal the same customizations and notes.
While Wikia is exiting the search business to focus on reference works, Microsoft is leaving the reference business, which is Encarta. They announced the site will discontinued on October 31, 2009.
When Google search engine is quite comfortable to find out answer though other website,
Wikia search isn’t useful.
I also don’t think Encarta isn’t necessary or useful…
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