Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is putting the building blocks in place for a ‘community-developed Web search’ service that would rival search engines such as Google or Yahoo.
Wales told a conference of software developers in Portland, Oregon, that his commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub from LookSmart Ltd, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia’s forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index relevant sites.
Human editors would help untangle terms with multiple meanings, such as palm, which can refer to location like Palm Beach, or generic topics like trees or handheld computers.

Source : Reuters