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Wikia Search was a short-lived free and open-source Web search engine launched by Wikia a for-profit wiki-hosting company founded in late 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley.Wikia Search followed other experiments by Wikia into search engine technology and officially launched as a public alpha on January 7 2008. The roll-out version of the search interface was widely criticized by reviewers in mainstream media. After failing to attract an audience the site closed by 2009.