Wales said at a conference of software developers in Portland, Ore., that his commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia’s forthcoming search ...

A slew of search companies have been formed over the years to be “Google killers,” no matter how they’ve described themselves. But many of the start-up companies barely caused a ripple in the ...

Wikia's open source project will drastically reduce the cost of making a search engine, opening the door to potentially hundreds of new competitors Google and other search engines face far more than ...

Jimbo Wales talks with Ars about the launch of Wikia's new open-source search engine. Even algorithms are editorial statements, he says, and Wikia wants to let its users take control of those ...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 27 (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 ...

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!