Grub (search engine): Difference between revisions
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{{distinguish|text= [[GNU GRUB]], the boot loader}} |
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[[File:Grub.svg|thumb|Grubby, the Official Grub Mascot]] |
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'''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> |
'''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> |
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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 URLs from the main grub server, indexed |
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> |
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== History == |
== History == |
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Latest revision as of 04:22, 1 August 2024
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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "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.
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