Wikipedia Creator Advances Quest To Develop Open Source Counter-Google
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Despite Google's $159 billion market cap - or rather, one suspects, because of it - Jimmy Wales, the guy who created - for better or worse - Wikipedia, figures Internet search is broken - because it's proprietary - and needs to be reinvented, freeing 'the judgment of information from invisible rules inside an algorithmic black box.' (Odd, he questions the biases of algorithms more than Wikipedia articles. Hmmm.) Anyway, back six or seven months ago he set up a LAMP-based project called Search Wikia to build a new for-profit search platform out of open source search protocols - like the open source Lucene search engine widgetry - and Wikipedia-like human collaboration. Wales has now acquired the Grub web crawler - dusty shelf-ware for the last few years - from LookSmart Ltd, an online targeted advertising company, on undisclosed terms and open sourced it.
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