Google is popular, no doubt. However, apparently, Google’s popularity is causing other sites to start their engines in full swing, in their attempts to take over the search engine giant.

Last month, Cuil.com, the search engine started by ex-Google employees came into the lime-light by announcing that they indexed more web pages than Google and the search results were better than that of Google. Thousands flocked to the site, wanting to test out the features that the developers claimed. However, it didn’t take long for them to find out what the real deal was.

Now, it’s the turn of Wikia Search to try and take on the giant. Wikia is the brainchild of Jimmy Wales, the founder of, unarguably the largest collection of information in one place, Wikipedia. Wikia Search is a human powered search engine that was launched in Alpha back in January. We caught up with Mr. Wales back in January for WATShow, who was here for the IIT TechFest.

Speaking at the Global Brand Forum in Singapore, Mr. Wales said:

Right now, in the US in particular, we have a really strong concentratio