Last January, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched a new search engine named Wikia Search, a supposed "Google-killer" that intended to edit and filter search results with the same techniques that made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon-the hand-outs of thousands of volunteers.

Since then, now six months have passed, and it has affected Google in no ways. Web Analytics Company Hit wise study that Wikia Search's traffic is actually yet too small to calculate. Bloggers have cruelly criticized Wikia's meager do, calling the search engine "miles behind the competition" and "an inexcusable waste of time."

On the other hand Wales maintains that it's yet too soon to decide upon his fledgling search engine project. Last week, Wikia Search re-launches with new features, which permits users to completely edit and filter all search results, as an alternative of the limited editing purposes given to users in Wikia Search's alpha phase. Only now, Wales argues, could the real test of Wikia's community-powered loom begin.