December 17, 2007 - It was eleven months ago that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales first mentioned his vision for a people-powered search engine that would eventually launch under his for profit startup, Wikia.

Not much has happened since then, other than a lot of chatter on an email discussion list, and the small acquisition of Grub, a distributed web crawling company, from Looksmart. The official site for Wikia Search is here.

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Posted: December 17th, 2007 under Home, Industry news.
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NOVEMBER 12, 2007 -  Digital media buyers were divided on the sheer magnitude of the new advertising initiatives announced last week by the Web’s two biggest social networking players—MySpace and Facebook—but most agreed that these new products will propel social networking advertising closer to reaching its mostly untapped targeting and viral potential. And some observers said Facebook has clearly lapped its larger rival when it comes to innovation on the advertising front.
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Posted: November 20th, 2007 under Home, Industry news.
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