I'm sad to see the doors close on Wikia Search. I was an intern in the NYC office last summer. The project had a refreshingly open philosophy and was built using FOSS components.
At least the index is still available at http://index.isc.org/
At least the index is still available at http://index.isc.org/
I almost wish it wasn't a part of Google. I'd like to have two offerings that are totally different-- one that's 100% pagerank and one that trends towards user-ranked. Right now we're kind of losing out on the latter because Google isn't necessarily taking into account the user rankings across accounts.
Seems like it would have gotten acquired at the very least.