Wikia Inc.’s project to develop an open-source search engine got another boost with the acquisition of the Grub distributed Web crawler, the company announced Friday. Wikia acquired Grub from ...

Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can disrupt ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday that he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would compete with search engines such as Google or Yahoo ...

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An open-source search engine from Wikia that was launched in alpha test in early 2008. The goal of Wikia Search is to develop a sophisticated search engine using a community-driven approach. Rather ...