For the most part this Reuters article repeats what we posted about last week in this post about the Wikia project. It also points out (something we also mentioned on RS) that LookSmart’s technology will power the advertising platform on Wikia. We also learn that while crawling will be distributed using the newly acquired Grub technology, Wikia will use the open-source Lucene search technology.

Source: Reuters (via News.com)

See Also: As we also mentioned last week, Nutch, part of the Lucene project, is used to crawl and power the massive WebHarvest.gov databases containing permanently archived versions of U.S. government web pages.

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