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VentureBeat: Search Wikia gets slammed, here’s our review

Nick Wilsdon · 1 year ago

>We applaud Search Wikia’s attempt to revolutionize the search space by creating an open source, freely licensable search engine

Actually Wikia has been built using the open source, freely licensable Nutch/Lucene search engine. I would have expected more considering they already had this work to build on.

http://searchengineland.com/061229-193718.php
http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/