Open Source search engine on the way by Wikipedia founder
July 31st, 2007 by e-tech
Wikipedia.com’s founder, Jimmy Wales, is set to compete with Google and Yahoo in the search engine war as he unveiled details of his company’s community-developed open source search engine.
The new site, due to launch by the end of 2007, will combine human-assisted editing with computer-controlled searches. Earlier this year Wales’ commercial startup company, Wikia, purchased the rights to web crawler platform Grub.
Grub users download a program which makes uses of their computer’s processing power while the machine is left idle. If widely adopted, such an arrangement could reduce the need for Wikia to set up a web crawling network of its own.
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