Revisiting my initial review of Jimmy Wales' latest endeavor, Wikia Search, I'm instantly reminded that back then it was just a promise, with actual features and options sorely lacking.
Now, the concept behind Wikia Search can finally be seen in the actual product. Starting today, you can now edit search results, add annotations, spotlight the result you deem most relevant, add your comments and delete entries - just like you can in Wikipedia. For example, I searched for "Mashable", and changed the title of the result linked to my.mashable.com from simply "MASHABLE" to the more accurate "MASHABLE COMMUNITY". If I wanted, I could have changed anything about the entry: its description, annotations, title, or I could have deleted it altogether and created a new one.
Obviously, there's room for manipulation and spamming here, but the idea is that the community will keep those in check while at the same time providing the most relevant results - the kind that an algorithm could never do. All of the changes are, of course, transparent, and can be followed at the "recent changes" page.
As far as actual day to day searching goes, Wikia Search is not there yet; not even close. The results are much better than when I first tried out Wikia Search, but try searching for something a bit more precise and you'll see that Wikia simply hasn't indexed enough pages yet to be able to compete with the heavyweights.