Grub (search engine)
Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Grub was an open source distributed search crawler platform.[1]
Users of Grub could download the peer-to-peer client software and let it run during their computer's idle time. The client fetched a list of URLs from the main grub server, indexed them and sent them back to the main grub server in a compressed form.[2]
History
Grub, Inc. was founded in 2000 by Kord Campbell in Oklahoma City.[3][4] Intellectual property rights were acquired from Grub in January 2003 for $1.3 million in cash and stock by LookSmart.[5] For a short time the original team continued working on the project, releasing several new versions of the software, albeit under a closed license.
Operations of Grub were shut down in late 2005. On July 27, 2007, Jimmy Wales announced that Wikia, then developing an open-source search engine called Wikia Search, had acquired Grub from LookSmart.[6] Wikia, now called Fandom, released the Grub source under an open-source license.[7]
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