Introducing Wikia Evolution
Posted by Dan Lewis
One of our core values at Wikia Search is Community. We want everyone to be able to participate in the Wikia Search project. That’s why we are proud to introduce Wikia Evolution, our new Firefox toolbar. You can download it here, or via Mozilla’s Firefox Add-On Library.
The mission of Wikia Evolution: To empower users to interact with search.
We want to make it dead-simple for you to add URLs into our index under appropriate keywords. Already, we’re the cutting edge when it comes to incorporating user feedback into our search results, so much so that Google is experimenting with eerily similar features. Wikia Evolution pushes the envelope even further. It allows you to quickly and easily add the web page you are on into Wikia Search, directly from your browser, for whatever keyword is appropriate. Instant indexing! Then, you can modify the search result to make it really killer, all without leaving the page you’re on.
Letting everyone modify search results pages is of fundamental importance — but you can’t on either Google or Yahoo. We can’t change that, sadly, but Wikia Evolution does the next best thing. Using Wikia Evolution, you can add and rate URLs directly from Google or Yahoo, and those contributions will be immediately incorporated into Wikia Search.
Jimmy left a comment on the Mozilla download page, and I think it bears repeating: “This toolbar, like everything we are doing at Wikia Search, is open source. We hope that if you are a toolbar fan and programmer, you will let us know what features need to be added and/or take this and do something surprising and cool with it.” Community: Let’s make it happen, together.
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August 6th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
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August 6th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
[...] Search has launched a new Firefox toolbar which they call Wikia Evolution. Wikia Evolution is available for download [...]
August 6th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
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August 7th, 2008 at 12:39 am
Great idea! We’d love to create a Yahoo! SearchMonkey infobar so this will work on any browser, without needing to install a toolbar. Where can we find documentation on the APIs you’re using (I guess we could scrounge around in the source code, but thought we’d ask :-))?
Amit Kumar
Product Manager, Yahoo! SearchMonkey
August 7th, 2008 at 1:03 am
[...] has launched Wikia Evolution, an open source toolbar that allows users to easily add urls to Wikia search when they are using [...]
August 7th, 2008 at 1:32 am
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August 7th, 2008 at 8:08 am
That’s really cool, but you should put the Download Link at the front site or at the Community Layer so that a normal user find the toolbar ;-)
August 7th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Is the toolbar also a indexer? That would be awesome. On that way you can track very simply the most popular webpages or the quality of a web page (when someone often is on a webpage that is not popular.)
August 7th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Hmmmmm. This looks very similar to something that came out years ago… http://www.luzul.com I wonder if it will do better?
August 7th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
[...] has recently added a new Firefox toolbar to make its Search Engine more flexible and feasible for its users. The [...]
August 7th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
[...] many before it, most recently Mahalo, Wikia Search has introduced a Firefox toolbar, called “Wikia Evolution,” to expand the site’s reach and engage more users in the process of adding and annotating search [...]
August 7th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
[...] many before it, most recently Mahalo, Wikia Search has introduced a Firefox toolbar, called “Wikia Evolution,” to expand the site’s reach and engage more users in the process of adding and [...]
August 7th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Doesn’t StumbleUpon already do this?
August 7th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
[...] many before it, most recently Mahalo, Wikia Search has introduced a Firefox toolbar, called “Wikia Evolution,” to expand the site’s reach and engage more users in the process of adding and [...]
August 8th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
[...] many before it, most recently Mahalo, Wikia Search has introduced a Firefox toolbar, called “Wikia Evolution,” to expand the site’s reach and engage more users in the process of adding and [...]
August 9th, 2008 at 1:46 am
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August 9th, 2008 at 1:51 am
[...] Watch out, it might yet surprise us… [...]
August 9th, 2008 at 2:57 am
I think I’ll put a FAQ up next week, if people want. Let me know!
August 10th, 2008 at 9:03 am
I have installed and checked it, and I see a problem. Often when I search for different terms the coming information is in different languages. But if we use the toolbar the terms are indexed in the language used by the browser. Maybe would be good to have an extension to select the language used to index the pages.
August 11th, 2008 at 8:40 am
[...] herramientas para Firefox lanzada por Wikia tiene interesantes influencias en su buscador. y es que la Wikia Evolution, que es así como se llama, lo que permite es votar los resultados de Google, Yahoo! y demás para [...]
August 12th, 2008 at 8:59 am
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