Wikipedia co-founder wants open-source search engine (ZDNet) [LWN.net]

ZDNet looks at the Wikia project. "Jabber founder Jeremie Miller has signed on to help develop Wikia's open-source search engine project, the organization announced. The Wikia project aims to develop a search engine, crawlers and other indexing tools through a collaborative, open-source process."

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Free Software Websearch software: Yacy

Posted May 2, 2007 14:26 UTC (Wed) by ber (subscriber, #2142) [Link]

There is an interesting Free Software for searching the web, even peer to peer, called Yacy. Its main disadvantage is that it is written in Java and last time I have looked did not run nicely enough on Free Software Java stacks.

Later in the ZDNet article I found the following interesting quote which makes it look unlikely that Yacy is considered: Not mentioned in the press release is the fact that Wikia is a for-profit venture. The complete business plan has yet to be worked out, but profits and revenue may be derived from advertising or services, Penchina said.

If I want a next generation search provider, it should be _not_ financed by advertisments.

Wikipedia co-founder wants open-source search engine (ZDNet)

Posted May 7, 2007 21:24 UTC (Mon) by cdmiller (subscriber, #2813) [Link]

Mnogosearch works pretty well...