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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]

References

^ "Grub". grub.org. Archived from the original on 2003-01-30.
^ "Client Downloads". grub.org. Archived from the original on 2003-02-08.
^ "grub.org - Investors". grub.org. Archived from the original on 2000-12-09.
^ "grub.org - Owners". grub.org. Archived from the original on 2001-04-08.
^ "Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm". www.sec.gov. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
^ "Wikipedia founder to challenge Google and Yahoo". Reuters. 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
^ "Jimmy Wales and Wikia Release Open Source Distributed Web Crawler Tool". Wikia. 2007-07-27. Archived from the original on 2007-08-21.

External links

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[1] "Grub". grub.org. Archived from the original on 2003-01-30.

[2] "Client Downloads". grub.org. Archived from the original on 2003-02-08.

[3] "grub.org - Investors". grub.org. Archived from the original on 2000-12-09.

[4] "grub.org - Owners". grub.org. Archived from the original on 2001-04-08.

[5] "Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm". www.sec.gov. Retrieved 2024-07-31.

[6] "Wikipedia founder to challenge Google and Yahoo". Reuters. 2007-08-09. Retrieved 2024-07-31.

[7] "Jimmy Wales and Wikia Release Open Source Distributed Web Crawler Tool". Wikia. 2007-07-27. Archived from the original on 2007-08-21.

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-{{distinguish2| [[GNU GRUB]] the boot loader}}
+{{distinguish|text= [[GNU GRUB]], the boot loader}}
+'''Grub''' was an [[Open source software|open source]] [[Distributed web crawling|distributed search]] crawler platform.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grub |url=http://grub.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030130015439/http://grub.org/ |archive-date=2003-01-30 |website=grub.org}}</ref>
-{{refimprove|date=October 2010}}
-[[File:Grub.svg|thumb|Unofficial Grub mascot]]
-'''Grub''' is an [[Open source software|open source]] [[Distributed web crawling|distributed search]] crawler platform.
-Users of Grub can [[download]] the [[peer-to-peer]] grubclient [[computer software|software]] and let it run during computer idle time. The client indexes the [[Uniform Resource Locator|URLs]] and send them back to the main grub [[Server (computing)|server]] in a highly [[Bandwidth compression|compressed]] form. The collective crawl could then, in theory, be utilized by an indexing system, such as the one being proposed at [[Wikia Search]]. Grub is able to quickly build a large snapshot by asking thousands of clients to crawl and analyze a small portion of the web each.
+Users of Grub could [[download]] the [[peer-to-peer]] client [[computer software|software]] and let it run during their computer's idle time. The client fetched a list of [[URL|URLs]] from the main grub server, indexed them and sent them back to the main grub [[Server (computing)|server]] in a [[Bandwidth compression|compressed]] form.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Client Downloads |url=http://www.grub.org/html/downloads.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030208010718/http://www.grub.org/html/downloads.php |archive-date=2003-02-08 |website=grub.org}}</ref>
-Wikia has now released the entire Grub package under an [[Open-source license|open source software license]]. However, the old Grub clients are not functional anymore. New clients can be found on the Wikia wiki.
 == History ==
-The project was started in 2000 by Kord Campbell, Igor Stojanovski, and Ledio Ago in [[Oklahoma City]].<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20001209031600/www.grub.org/investors.html Grub Inc. Investors page as archived by Archive.org, December 2000]</ref> Undetermined copyright, patent or trademark rights from Grub, Inc. were purchased in 2003 for $1.3 million by LookSmart, Ltd.<ref>[http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077866/000119312504214657/dex993.htm LookSmart SEC filing], 2003</ref> For a short time the original team continued working on the project, releasing several new versions of the software, albeit under a closed license.
+Grub, Inc. was founded in 2000 by Kord Campbell in [[Oklahoma City]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=grub.org - Investors |url=http://www.grub.org/investors.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001209031600/http://www.grub.org/investors.html |archive-date=2000-12-09 |website=grub.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=grub.org - Owners |url=http://www.grub.org/owners.php |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010408054446/http://www.grub.org/owners.php |archive-date=2001-04-08 |website=grub.org}}</ref> Intellectual property rights were acquired from Grub in January 2003 for $1.3 million in cash and stock by [[LookSmart]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077866/000119312504214657/dex993.htm |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=www.sec.gov}}</ref> For a short time the original team continued working on the project, releasing several new versions of the software, albeit under a closed license.
+Operations of Grub were shut down in late 2005. On July 27, 2007, [[Jimmy Wales]] announced that [[Wikia]], then developing an open-source search engine called [[Wikia Search]], had acquired Grub from [[LookSmart]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-08-09 |title=Wikipedia founder to challenge Google and Yahoo |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUST34811320070308/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> Wikia, now called [[Fandom (website)|Fandom]], released the Grub source under an [[open-source license]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-07-27 |title=Jimmy Wales and Wikia Release Open Source Distributed Web Crawler Tool |url=http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia_OSCON |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821061921/http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia_OSCON |archive-date=2007-08-21 |website=Wikia}}</ref>
-Operations of Grub were shut down in late 2005.  The site was reactivated on July 27, 2007, and the site is currently being updated.  The original developers are assisting with the new deployment, and investigating the robots.txt issue, to ensure a repeat performance{{Clarify|of what?|date=February 2010}} does not occur.
-On July 27, 2007 [[Jimmy Wales]] announced that [[Wikia]], Inc., the for-profit company developing the open source search engine [[Wikia Search]], had acquired Grub from [[LookSmart]].<ref>[http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia_OSCON "Jimmy Wales and Wikia Release Open Source Distributed Web Crawler Tool"]. Wikia, Inc. Press release. 27 July 2007</ref> The cost was [[USD|$]]50,000.<ref>[http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077866/000119312507242517/d10q.htm#toc LookSmart SEC filing], 2007</ref>
 ==References==
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 ==External links==
+{{commons category|Grub (search engine)}}
-{{commonscat|grub}}
+*{{sourceforge|grub}}
-*[http://grub.org/ Official website]
-*[http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub/ Today website]
-*[http://answers.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Search Search Wikia Project]
 {{Distributed search engines}}
-{{web-software-stub}}
 [[Category:Internet search engines]]
 [[Category:Free search engine software]]
 [[Category:Free web crawlers]]
+{{web-software-stub}}

v t e Distributed search engines
Distributed web search	Seeks YaCy
Distributed web crawlers	Grub
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