User Participation Drives Retooled Wikia Search Engine - Yahoo! News
One concern with a community-based system is that users will try to “game the system,” deleting references to competitors or engaging in trash talk in the comments. “We should see some fierce edit wars on this one,” noted Erick Schonfeld on the TechCrunch blog.

As if no one ever games Google or Yahoo!…  At least with this approach, one can see the results and then decide, whereas with the other players, you never know who is gaming, nor do you know if you can actually trust the engine itself.  With Wikia, you can get the code…  It’s called Lucene.

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