Wikia Search launch meets harsh reviews from the blogosphere

"All in all, Wikia Search looks like something that was cooked by two guys in one month in a basement," concluded Schroeder. Wales responded to Arrington's post by reinforcing the alpha status of the search engine and by reminding readers that like Wikipedia, the Wikia Search relies is a collaborative effort. "It's a project to *build* a search engine, not a search engine." He pointed to day one of Wikipedia's launch, which was an "empty website with some funny editing syntax." And in answer to the unflattering comparisons to GoogleGoogle, he wrote, "Google didn't launch a project to build a human-powered search engine, they launched an algorithmic search engine with a clever new idea. So they didn't have to wait for the humans to come in and start building it." Alles zu Google auf CIO.de

Whether users opt to build Wikia Search or simply choose to stay with Google and other search engines remains to be seen.