Wikipedia founder acquires Grub search crawler for Wikia.

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Wikipedia Founder Launches New Open-Source Search Project
Appscout, NY - 3 hours ago
There are plenty of things to love about the Wikipedia--the site's search feature, has never really rated near the top of the list, however. ...

Wikipedia founder and Chairman of Wikia.com Jimmy Wales speaks during a news conference in Tokyo March 8, 2007. Wales said on Friday he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo.

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Jimmy Wales buys Look Smart's Grub search engine and secures it under an open source license for a public release later this year.

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

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

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Blog: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announces the release of an open-source Web crawling site called Grub.

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Wikipedia founder plans open-source search engine
SiliconValley.com, CA - 11 minutes ago
By Elise Ackerman Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, the world's biggest community-written online encyclopedia, announced Friday that he had taken a small ...

Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, the world's biggest community-written online encyclopedia, announced Friday that he had taken a small step toward his next big goal: a community-programmed search engine that competes with Google.

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

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<img src=http://news.google.com/news?imgefp=7ZgpHeIA9eUJ&imgurl=www.blorge.com/images/1d0d51286d16_5247/jimmy_wales.jpg width=79 height=59 alt="" border=1>Wikipedia founder plans search engine to rival nothing
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia - 12 minutes ago
By George Gardner Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales, has been going on and on about plans for his new search engine, Wikia Search, for nearly a year; ...

Jimmy Wales invests in a "distributed" effort to index the Web, part of his plan to build an open alternative to Google.

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Wikia sets out several guidelines for its open engine: It will be transparent -- the algorithms determining how results are ranked will be visible to all. Google and other engines invest huge sums to develop these algorithms, and they guard them extremely closely.



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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is putting the building blocks in place for a search service that would rival Google or Yahoo.

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Founder of Wikipedia has acquired Web crawler and plans to launch community-developed Web search.

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SAN FRANCISCO - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed websearch service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo.

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WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales said he was planning a community-developed web search service to Google or Yahoo.

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Wikia'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.

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So Wikipedia thinks they're bigger than Google? What about their partnership? Weren't they mutually benefitting each other?

Jimbo, if you're serious about this, you're an idiot. Google will gun for you, and feel betrayed, and Wikipedia's days are numbered.

Sorry to bump my own post, but I just wanted to make sure (in the swirl of Slimmack outings) that everybody's aware of this.

I get the impression the media is using phrases like "Wales is building" and "Wales is laying down the architecture", when in fact, he's just arranging for the purchase of another group's handiwork.

Not that I'm surprised...

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

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WIKIPEDIA founder Jimmy Wales said he was putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo.



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The founder of Wikipedia wants to launch a search engine that will compete competitively online.

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SAN FRANCISCO, US: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed Web search service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo.

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Google & Yahoo! Look Out – Wikipedia Founder Sets His Sights on ...
Social Computing Magazine, NY - 12 minutes ago
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales wants to change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers and has accordingly – through Wikia ...

Jimmy Wales has announced plans to develop an open-source web-search service to challenge the dominance of established search engines

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Wikipedia founder gets Grubby with search
VNUNet.com, UK - 12 minutes ago
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has his sights set on creating an open alternative to Google's search engine. Wales’ Wikia project aims to provide ...

Wikipedia founder to compete with Google
IT Week, UK - 13 minutes ago
Jimmy Wales, the creator of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has unveiled details of his company's community-developed open source search engine. ...

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia , has his sights set on creating an open alternative to Google's search engine.

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Neon Kelly, Computing , Monday 30 July 2007 at 00:00:00 Wiki-based search engine to launch later this year Jimmy Wales, the creator of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has unveiled details of his company's community-developed open source search engine. The new site, due to launch by the end of 2007, will combine human-assisted... > Read the full article

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I was sure that I'd replied to this.

This seems to have been picked up by 10 or so of our RSS feeds, hence making this more important than any silly SlimVirgin scandal.

Wikipedia launches DIY search engine
Times Online, UK - 14 minutes ago
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has said that just as internet users can contribute to articles on an open-source encyclopedia, so too will they be ...

Wikia has acquired Grub, a distributed computing system for web indexing. The company plans to distribute Grub under an open source license and use it to leverage volunteer computing power for a participatory search engine that is still under development. Read More...

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You may not have heard of Grub, but the Web crawler company was just acquired by Wikia. And now Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia and co-founder of Wikia, thinks he may “change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers.” Wales isn’t throwing around the term “Google killer” or anything like that, however. According to Eric Auchard , he stipulated that the change ...

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New search engine to compete against Google

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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, has said that just as internet users can contribute to articles on an open-source encyclopedia, so too will they be able to play a hand in the way the web is searched.

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thanks for bumping this Greg, I missed it

According to reports in the San Jose Mercury News , Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, is looking to build a "a community-programmed search engine that competes with Google." His company, Wikia, has just purchased technology to create such an engine. As you know, many SEO type folks do not like Wikipedia. Can this open source search engine really compete with Google? Moderator EGOL at ...

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On Friday at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Wikia, the Web 2.0 community builder behind Wikipedia, gave the world an update on its progress toward building a new search platform based on open-source software and human collaboration.

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Wikipedia to compete with Google
seattlepi.com Buzzworthy - 1 hour ago
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said in a press conference Friday that his company has purchased the Web crawler Grub, and plans to create a Wiki-centric ...

NewsFactor - On Friday at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Wikia, the Web 2.0 community builder behind Wikipedia, gave the world an update on its progress toward building a new search platform based on open-source software and human collaboration.

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Wikipedia to compete with Google
seattlepi.com Buzzworthy - 2 hours ago
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said in a press conference Friday that his company has purchased the Web crawler Grub, and plans to create a Wiki-centric ...

Wikipedia to compete with Google
seattlepi.com Buzzworthy - 3 hours ago
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said in a press conference Friday that his company has purchased the Web crawler Grub, and plans to create a Wiki-centric ...

Wikia acquires Grub from LookSmart Wikia Inc. has acquired the web crawler Grub from LookSmart Ltd adding another component to its project to create a search engine that is open-source. The project is drawing from the ideas behind Wikipedia, the encyclopedia built by volunteers. Search Wikia is expected to make its debut before the end of the year. It is not yet clear if the search engine ...

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Wikipedia to compete with Google
seattlepi.com Buzzworthy - 7 hours ago
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said in a press conference Friday that his company has purchased the Web crawler Grub, and plans to create a Wiki-centric ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday 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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Corrects spelling of Lucene in eighth paragraph. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday 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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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales finds a potential opportunity to tip the scale on search companies and balance it with publishers. He says that the plans are set for a Web search service that is community developed and would challenge search engines like Google and Yahoo.

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Friday 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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