Wikia reveals Google's competitive search technology

Wikipedia 'Father' Jimmy Wales said last weekend that he was working on laying the foundation for the development of an open source search service that competes directly with other services like Google or Yahoo.

Speaking to software developers attending a seminar held in Portland, Oregon, Wales said Wikia - a newly formed Wales trading company - has completed the purchase process of Grub - the carrier. web search technology (web crawler). This technology application will allow Wikia's upcoming service to search for information across the Internet.

' There will be a significant change if the search engine produces the correct results. The role will then belong to the content provider, not depending on the search provider , 'said Wales.

Similar to Wikipedia, Wikia will build an 'open source' search service with the help of thousands of volunteers.

Search technology by human

It is expected that the first beta version of the Wikia search site will be officially launched later this year.

The new search service will combine computer algorithms with human help. Here people will play a major role in correcting the search terms that have ambiguous meaning or multiple meanings. For example, 'palm' not only returns to the Palm Beach location but also means 'palm' and PDA device. Search results will be extracted through an open source software called Lucerne.

Grub is a completely free open source project. Wikia acquires Grub from LookSmart Ltd. after the company decided to stop maintaining it. Wikia plans to continue to open Grub to call for support from developers to develop and improve technology.

Grub is developed on the basis of distributed computing technology. Each user of Grub software downloaded from the website http://www.grub.org/ can contribute to the processing of their PC in their free time for information search. This solution will help Wikia save a lot of costs in developing the computer network necessary for searching information on the web.

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