The Grub distributed crawler, which was acquired from LookSmart, appeared to provide most of the solution. By downloading the client, Grub allows “the site owners the option of crawling their own data, with their own bandwidth.
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 open search engine being developed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has bought the search crawler Grub from LookSmart, according to IDG News. The Search Wikia project seeks to create a search engine based on open-source search protocols and...
Speaking at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), Wales announced that Wikia has acquired Grub, the distributed search spidering technology previously owned by LookSmart, and will begin using it to build an index for the Search Wikia project.
A look at Grub, the company and technology that LookSmart purchased earlier this year to do distributed crawling of the web. source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&guid={84A9B55F-82B4-4B68-BAD8-3C2C6E03D2B3} Why am I getting an "Internal Server Error" when I...
Grub Joins Forces with LookSmart Grub, March 17, 2003 http://www.grub.org/html/news.php? LookSmart has acquired distributed crawling company Grub. source=ser2 Some editors at The Open Directory Project are now contributing to a web log that...
