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 ...

Last Friday, Wikipedia founder and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia had acquired Grub, a Web crawler that utilizes unused computer processing time on users’ computers to crawl the ...

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 ...

Wikia Search, an open-source search tool launched early this year by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, today opened its platform with a new application programming interface (API) that allows individuals ...

After months of talk and a few weeks of invitation-only testing, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has set January 7th as the public test launch date for its community-driven search project, Wikia Search.

Jimmy Wales, the founder of community driven encyclopaedia Wikipedia and its parent company Wikia, said last week that he is in the process of laying the foundations for a community-developed web ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says he is putting the building blocks in place for a community-developed web search service that would ...

Today Wikipedia’s creator Jimmy Wales officially released the alpha version of Wikia Search, an open-source search engine that will integrate users’ contribution with computer algorithms. And it will ...