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We have been hearing for long that the creator of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales has been working on a cool web 2.0 search engine called Wikia that will turn out to be a big competitor to Google Search.

Wikia Search Alpha has recently launched and it does not look that much promising at all. However that is probably because it is just in its first Alpha stage.

Wikia basically brings a new concept to the world of search engines called Freely licensed (open source) search. Means that the users will be able to rate the search results according to their relevancy and the search results will accordingly get their search engine rankings in Wikia.

This is probably a good new initiative to throw back black hat seo techniques and other methods that would allow a programmer to manipulate the search engine rankings for a particular keyword. However this also does not make Wikia a 100% fool proof search engine. Dear SEO freaks would again figure out some way to manipulate Wikia whether sooner or later.

The Alpha release is pretty much low on quality and has a lot of bugs. There is a cool feature just like Wikipedia which will allow users to edit excerpts and descriptions related to a website or web page.

I tested Wikia for the keyword “Sizlopedia” and luckily it did had Sizlopedia indexed already. Try it out for your blog and see if its worth it.