(Reuters) - Wales told a conference of software developers in Portland,
Oregon, that his commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub,
a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia's forthcoming
search service to scour the Web to index relevant sites.
"If we can get good quality search results, I think it will
really change the balance of power from the search companies
back to the publishers," said Wales, chairman of San Mateo,
California-based Wikia. "I could be wrong about this, but it
seems like a likely outcome."
Read more at Reuters.com Mergers News
Oregon, that his commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub,
a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia's forthcoming
search service to scour the Web to index relevant sites.
"If we can get good quality search results, I think it will
really change the balance of power from the search companies
back to the publishers," said Wales, chairman of San Mateo,
California-based Wikia. "I could be wrong about this, but it
seems like a likely outcome."
Read more at Reuters.com Mergers News
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