Wikipedia-Wikia plans Open Source Search Engine, rival Google ?
Written by on Friday, July 27th, 2007 in wikia, wikipedia, wikisari, yahoo, techcrunch, search engine, search, news, msn, open source, Google.
Recently Reuters reported “Wikipedia Plans to Rival Google”.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo.
Wales told a conference of software developers in Portland, Oregon, that his commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia’s forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index relevant sites.
“If we can get good quality search results, I think it will really change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers,” said Wales, chairman of San Mateo, California-based Wikia. “I could be wrong about this, but it seems like a likely outcome.”
But this is not something very new, in December, last year (more…)
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