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Wikia has recently added a new Firefox toolbar to make its Search Engine more flexible and feasible for its users. The user-friendly or can say the user-edited search engine’s  Firefox toolbar makes the searching mechanism dead simple by allowing you to add keywords and URLs into Wikia’s index easily.

Users can now add web pages directly from their browser and can even modify them without leaving their page. Thus, the newly added toolbar supports the basic idea of Instant Indexing by letting users make their added URL most unique with the help of some key functions like Annotating, Editing, Spotlighting, commenting, rating or deleting any specified URL.

In addition to all these features, Wikia even allows you to Add and Rate directly from Search Engine Giants i-e Google (including Google News) and Yahoo. On searching any specified query, the engines will allow you to add and rate this query.

An ‘Add’ button  allows you to add your search result into Wikia Index for your specified query. While you can also rate your search result from 1 to 5 and Wikia will also append rating with your search results.

On the launching of Evolution toolbar, Wikia’s founder Jimmy Wales said that the open source toolbar is heartedly accepting suggestions to make it more cool and usable.

This toolbar, like everything we are doing at Wikia Search, is open source. We hope that if you are a toolbar fan and programmer, you will let us know what features need to be added and/or take this and do something surprising and cool with it.

According to Mashable, the company is expecting to hit 1 million contributions in the next few days and its figures clearly reveals that its rate of growth is quiet noticeable as the company is already averaging 36,000 queries during the past four weeks.

Newly added Firefox toolbar will be a boon to the search engine users. With an abrupt increase in the usage of Search Engines, there lies a great scope for Wikia to flourish. The site is effortlessly making a lot of improvement in its searching technique and process and is on its way to discover new ways of success. Their mission to ‘empower users to interact with search’ seems promising. Though it hasn’t reached up to the level of other mighty search engines such as Google, but it can help users to have better search results for less complicated or simple queries and its stats shows that it is preparing itself for the highly complex queries also.

You can download the nee Firefox toolbar from here, or via  Mozilla’s Firefox Add-On Library.