Wikia has acquired the distributed web crawling engine Grub from Looksmart. Grub utlizes spare computing cycles on users’ computers to index the web, a similar concept to that used by SETI@home in the ...

As the quantity of information on the Internet continues to grow, so does the question of how to process it all and make it useful. A startup called 80legs, based in Houston, TX, is hoping that an ...

The deep web constitutes a vast reservoir of content that remains inaccessible to conventional search engines due to its reliance on dynamic query forms and non-static pages. Advanced crawling and ...

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 ...

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