What is Wikia?

A brief discussion took place on the Wikia search mailing list that I thought might provide value to share.

John McCormac asked, "What exactly is Wikia? Is it a search engine or just a form of hybrid super directory based on Wikipedia and similar sites?"

Jeremie Berrebi provided the following response, "We are not building yet-another-search-engine, we are putting our efforts into making building ANY search engine easier, better tools, better methods, more shared systems, etc.  This isn't one project, it's tens or even hundreds of them, and likely to take years."

Check out our previous Wikia coverage.