Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, talked to IDG News Service in Tokyo about Wikia Search, a new open-source search engine that's due out in the fourth quarter of this year. It will combine community, Wales' strength, with search in an attempt to create more transparency and accountability in a search engine industry dominated by Google and Yahoo! Wales is bringing together open-source developers and providing them resources to create a full-scale crawling spyder on the Web.
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