I blogged about how Wikipedia killed Encarta (the encyclopedia published by MicroSoft).
Today, here’-s a report on the demise of Wikia —-a search engine partially powered by human input (a la Wikipedia), and co-founded by Jimmy Wales. The Wired article lists all the search engine startups (Snap, PowerSet, Cuil, etc.) that miserably failed to dent into Google’-s de facto monopoly.