Wikia search is a new project from Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. As discussed on the second autonomo.us podcast, his objective is to create a Free Network Service for Web search: an alternative search engine compatible with the Franklin Street Statement.
To add Wikia Search to your Firefox search bar:
- visit this page (with Javascript turned on)
If you use vimperator to reduce the amount of mousing involved in your daily web browsing, put this in your ~/.vimperatorrc to make Wikia your default search plugin:
:set defsearch=wikia
Please let me know if this stops working, I'll update the search extension.
Hey, Francois
thanks for pointing me to Wikia search (and for improving vimperator).
What I don't like about them is the mandatory Javascript. As long as it's there, I won't use Wikia Search, although search engine alternatives are sorely needed.
Sadly, there seems to be no feedback page to let them know. Do you know of any?
Regards
-- tomás tomas at tuxteam dot de