It is going to take more than just an open search platform to take on Google. Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced today that he is shutting down Wikia Search, the company’s experiment in creating ...

Wikia – a leading provider of community resources for building and organizing free content on every topic – unveiled major next steps in its work to build a new search platform founded on open-source ...

During a keynote address at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon, Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that his company has acquired the distributed web crawler Grub. The company ...

Last Friday, Wikipedia founder and Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia had acquired Grub, a Web crawler that utilizes unused computer processing time on users’ computers to crawl the ...