User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-3388044-20120428061427/@comment-4674838-20120428181533

"How are younger and new Wikians supposed to be able to manage interwiki navigation?"

Google + bookmarks seem to work just fine? People find Wikia in the first place using a search engine, and they probably have a habit of using it. Logically speaking, they will continue to use their favored search engine to find "new" sites or topics. But, they'll use Wikia's search when looking for pages on one particular wiki itself.

Speaking for myself, at least, I discovered Wikipedia long before Wikia. It took me about a month of using the same Wikia wiki before I came to realize that this wasn't just a wiki -- Wikia was a company that has a network of wikis, and this is merely 1 particular wiki making up part of that network. (Sure, you could argue I should have seen the logo or ads or whatnot, but I was just looking for game info. I didn't bother to look at the peripherals. All I did was read a page / use the search to look up an item / go back to playing my game.)

Before reading this, I never even considered the possibility that Wikia's search could be used to navigate interwiki. Whenever I want a different wiki / site, I default to using bing (or a bookmark if I already have it bookmarked).