jtara - 4:26 pm on Dec 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

assuming it's gonna be called Wikisari.

It isn't. That's been clarified. That isn't even the project name.

As promised, the project home page, at search.wikia.com has been updated this morning.

Wikiasari? Wikiasari is and will not be the name for the free search engine we're developing. It was the name of a former project (see history).

Looks like the press erroneously put out the name of an old project that has nothing to do with this, other than that is was a previous search project that Wales was involved in.

"Wikia" is Wales' new company, and wikia.com is home to a collection of Wiki communities, mostly third-party volunteer efforts. I gather that search.wiki.com is the home of the "Jimbo's new search project" community.

Wales also clarifies elsewhere on the new site that the screen shot in the TechCrunch article comes from WikiSearch, a seperate product to be launched January, 2007. WikiaSearch will search among external links from Wikipedia. The bulk of the the profits from WikiaSearch will be donated to Wikipedia.