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Wikia Search Engine Launched
ByImran Asad January 7, 2008April 15, 2012

World’s (well, arguably) first true Human-powered search engine has been launched. Since last year, Wikipedia man- Jimy Wales announced his latest experiment-a freely licensed, open-source search engine- going by the name, Wikia Search. Although there is a lot of much hype and excitemnet among internet enthusiasts, Jimmy Wales has clearly agreed that his search engine…

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Wikipedia Man Builds Open Source Search Engine
ByImran Asad July 30, 2007

Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, announced today that his for-profit community hosting site Wikia has deepened its investment in developing an open-source Web search engine. Wikia purchased Grub, a company that makes distributed a Web crawling program. Instead of having a single set of computers index the Web — as Google and other search…

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