Robert_Charlton - 8:30 am on Jan 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

From today's New York Times article [nytimes.com]....

Like other search engines and sites that rely on the so-called "wisdom of crowds," the Wikia search engine is likely to be susceptible to people who try to game the system, by, for example, seeking to advance the ranking of their own site. Mr. Wales said Wikia would attempt to "block them, ban them, delete their stuff," just as other wiki projects do.