Sunday, July 29, 2007

Wikia details plans for search rival to Google | Tech&Sci | Technology | Reuters.com

Interesting times... 

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.

Wales told a conference of software developers in Portland, Oregon, that his commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia's forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index relevant sites.

Wikia details plans for search rival to Google | Tech&Sci | Technology | Reuters.com

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