RonPK - 12:44 pm on Jan 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

I guess it's too early to cast a real judgement as this is obviously a work in progress. It will be interesting to see if they can build the community that this project needs. I for one wouldn't be keen to invest time in helping Mr. Wales get rich with advertising.

A quick comparison to Google:
* both engines cannot count. A wikia search that returned 3 results said "Results 1-5 of approximately 5 for [..]". At the bottom there is a button "Results 4 to 13" which doesn't return any extra results.
* wikia does not put wikipedia articles at the top of most searches like Google does.

Wikia messes with the browser's history, which means it essentially breaks the back button. DON'T BREAK MY BACK BUTTON! Playing with JavaScript has resulted in bad coding, IMHO.

Another thing is the use of the #-character in the URL to indicate the query string. They're thereby ignoring the widely accepted standard of using # for indicating page fragments and the question mark? for indicating query strings.