Wikia Search Engine Gains a Web Crawler
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| Wikia acquired Grub from LookSmart Ltd. and released it under an open-source
| license, adding a significant component to Search Wikia, scheduled to debut
| in this year's fourth quarter.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070727/tc_pcworld/135171
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Wikia Unveils Four Additional Open Source 'Magazine' Sites
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| As with our other open-source magazine sites, we hope that the
| new sites launched today continue to give people the opportunity
| to create and share information on the topics that are most
| important to them
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/4/prweb518486.htm
Wikipedia founder remakes Web publishing economics
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| Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said on Monday his for-profit
| company, Wikia Inc., is ready to give away -- for free -- all
| the software, computing, storage and network access that Web
| site builders need to create community collaboration sites.
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| [...]
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| Armchair's software is the first of hundreds of freely licensed
| software packages to be hosted by the company in the near
| future, Wales said. These could include popular open-source
| publishing software such as WordPress and Drupal. Consumers
| would then have a single password across all sites.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/bs_nm/internet_wikia_dc_1
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