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
Within Grub's site stats, there's a "Wikia Search" team that crawled around 918k URLs so far. When Wikia Search was released last night, Jimmy Wales explained they used a "placeholder index" for the search.
Search Wikia Launches Open Source, Distributed Crawler Wikia Search Plans Progressing Yahoo Site Explorer Gets Updates We've got a fresh infusion of new blood on the conference side with Kevin Ryan, and on the site side with Kevin Heisler.
Wikia will immediately release Grub to the open source community, and make both the crawler and source code available at Grub.org. Once the Search Wikia site is up, users will have several social elements to participate in.
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...
