pimg src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45622000/jpg/_45622109_wikiasearchbody.jpg" align="left" width="226" height="170" alt="Screen grab of Wikia Search" border="0" vspace="4" hspace="4"/pp class="first"b Wikia Search, a project created by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales with the aim of creating a community-led search engine, has been ditched./bp He announced the decision to quot;close the doorsquot; on the project in a blog post. /pp Wikia Search quot;has not been enjoying the kind of success that we hoped for,quot; said Mr Wales. /pp He blamed the recession for his decision to withdraw funding but promised to continue as a quot;cheerleaderquot; for alternatives to Google. /pp quot;I personally believe in the opportunity for free software to make serious inroads into the search space. In a different economy we would continue to fund Wikia Search indefinitely,quot; he said. /pp b No profit/b/pp Instead he will refocus efforts on social network Wikia, which, in common with all Wiki projects, has a community-driven content approach. /pp According to internet measurement firm Nieslen, Wikia is now the fifth faster growing online community in the US. /pp Wikia Search was first announced in 2006 and went live last year. /pp As with the Wikipedia encyclopaedia which brought Mr Wales to prominence, the emphasis for Wikia Search was on user-contributed content. It let anyone rate and filter its search results. /pp In an interview with the BBC when the site went live Mir Wales promised it would be quot;completely controlled by the community of usersquot;. /pp Unlike Wikipedia, Wikia Search was always intended to be a profit making business, with money coming from advertising. /pp In his interview with the BBC Mr Wales played up the role of users as editors but said there were no plans to allow them to claim a share in the revenue. /phrpThis article is from the a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk"BBC News website/a. #169; British Broadcasting Corporation/pdiv class="feedflare"
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