Search Wikia Launches Open Source, Distributed Crawler Today, Wikia announced a plethora of new features for users to have their say in how search results should really be. Wikia Search: Wikia Dream? Wikia Search Requires Your Help
When Wikia Search was released last night, Jimmy Wales explained they used a "placeholder index" for the search. While this may be appropriate for the alpha search, I'd like to ask Jimmy exactly how Wikia plans to crawl and index a significant...
Search Wikia Launches Open Source, Distributed Crawler Wikia Search Plans Progressing Yesterday, we defined 2007 as "The Year that Search Grew Up. Gary Price on Mobile Search Blended and universal search, quality scores, social media, and...
Wikia will immediately release Grub to the open source community, and make both the crawler and source code available at Grub.org. Speaking at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) last week, Wales announced that Wikia has acquired Grub, the...
The Search Wikia project seeks to create a search engine based on open-source search protocols and human collaboration, drawing from the concept of the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, which is written and edited by a community of volunteer...
Wikia will immediately release Grub to the open source community, and make both the crawler and source code available at Grub.org. Wikia, the commercial site led by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is taking the next step toward launching its open...
