Grub is an open source distributed search crawler platform. On July 27, 2007 Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia, Inc., the for-profit company developing the open source search engine Wikia Search, had acquired Grub from LookSmart. . The cost was $50,000 .
The project was started in 2000 by Kord Campbell, Igor Stojanovski, and Ledio Ago in Oklahoma City. Undetermined copyright, patent or trademark rights from Grub, Inc. were purchased in 2003 for $1...
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Grub is an open source distributed search crawler platform. On July 27, 2007 Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia, Inc., the for-profit company developing the open source search engine Wikia Search, had acquired Grub from LookSmart. . The cost was $50,000 .
The project was started in 2000 by Kord Campbell, Igor Stojanovski, and Ledio Ago in Oklahoma City. Undetermined copyright, patent or trademark rights from Grub, Inc. were purchased in 2003 for $1.3 million by LookSmart, Ltd. For a short time the original team continued working on the project, releasing several new versions of the software, albeit under a closed license.
There were several controversial issues surrounding the Grub project in the time shortly after LookSmart acquired it. Grub had a slight tendency to ignore a few mis-configured robots.txt files on the sites it crawled. Even when the development team addressed these issues, a few webmasters continued blaming it for crawling their site too much, and not respecting their...
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