At the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Wales announced that he would immediately release the crawler to the open source community. When Wikia Search was released last night, Jimmy Wales explained they used a "placeholder index" for the search.
Speaking at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) last week, 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...
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.
