Commercial search-engine providers could soon face a serious competitor if the vision of some open-source developers materializes. A team of open-source programmers recently launched a project called ...

Bob van Luijt's career in technology started at age 15, building websites to help people sell toothbrushes online. Not many 15 year-olds do that. Apparently, this gave van Luijt enough of a head start ...

I’ve been following Mozdex for about a year or so after meeting its owner, Byron Miller, on SitePoint Forums and being amazed with some of the offerings that Byron was working on at the time. Mozdex ...

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There have been rumblings in the Wikimedia community since last year that a better search engine is on the way and it looks like that’s true – but not everyone’s happy. In a $250,000 grant document ...

Wikia Search, the Jimbo Wales-backed open-source search project, officially launches today after a year of development. Wales, a Wikipedia co-founder, wants to "do cool stuff" by launching the project ...

But I can't help but think of how monopolistic the industry has become. It's made me look for open-source alternatives. The ...

A group of international developers are working together to produce an open source search engine that may rival the commercial search bandits. From the Nutch project’s site: Nutch is a nascent effort ...

Today the Apache Foundation released a major update to the open source search engine building tools Lucene and Solr. Version 4.0 adds several new features aimed at making Solr easier to use, more ...

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Joining its fellow social-networking companies in the public release of internal code, LinkedIn has opened sourced software obtained in October with its acquisition of the IndexTank search-engine ...

Google built its web empire on commodity hardware. Rather than invest in powerful, expensive supercomputers, it harnessed the collective power of tens of thousands of ordinary servers, cutting costs ...