Wikia Search, pitched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales as a Google killer when it launched in January 2008 is no longer. Wales wrote in a post that Wikia Search “has not been enjoying the kind of success that we had hoped” and then blamed the economy for the demise. Wikia Search failed to find an audience, which in turn meant that it failed to establish a credible search index.
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Wikia Search finally canned
Students in the U.K. may soon swap out some history classes for Twitter education, if a recently proposed suggestion gets adopted.
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British Schools May Trade History For Twitter
Late last month, the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan voted – by an overwhelming margin – to terminate their lease to the United States of Manas Air Base, and required the Americans to vacate the base within six months.
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Kyrgyzstan and Manas Air Base
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