Wikia, Inc. , the for-profit cousin of the Wikimedia Foundation, launched the alpha release of its new search engine, Search Wikia , on January 7. Search Wikia is branded as a "social" search engine, significantly different from the big names in search, such as Google and Ask.com. Wikia is hoping that the open and participatory model will make Search Wikia the place to go for search results of higher quality.

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