Wikia Search Allows Users To Change Search Results - InformationWeek

Wikia Search, the unfastened beginning Web hunt engine, this hebdomad announced new characteristics that volition give users even greater control over hunt results.

The changes, unveiled Tuesday, allow users edit, remark on, add, and cancel hunt results. Wikia, formerly Wikicities, released its alpha version of an unfastened beginning hunt engine in January. The company said this hebdomad that it have got attracted about 20,000 registered users who have written nearly 25,000 mini-articles and made almost 60,000 edits.

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The company trusts the recent alterations will increase user battle and do hunt more interactive.

Users can redact results, titles, and summaries. The alterations are immediately available to all users. Results can be rated on a five-star scale, with comments, and subscribers can add related searches. Users also can prevue sites, text, images, and golf course from the lists of hunt results. Wikia also will let users to chink once to seek their hunts with other hunt engines.

"Collectively, these new characteristics set us a measure closer to our end of making the hunt procedure a much more than participatory and democratic one," said Jimmy Wales, co-founder and president of Wikia. "So, if person runs a hunt and doesn't happen the consequence they're looking for, we're giving them the powerfulness to travel in and hole it. It goes on to be our belief that, over time, by adding the human component into hunt we'll be able to bring forth more than relevant, insightful results."

Wikia Search also added "activity" feeds and other improvements to its profile pages so people can expose and discourse recent changes.

Like its first cousin Wikipedia, the hunt engine listings all alterations and edits.

To assist explicate how easy the procedure is, Cymru released a picture to show the alterations to .