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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is gunning for Google. But at least one analyst is warning it’s a mighty long shot.
At an open-source conference in Portland, Oregon, on Friday, Mr. Wales announced that his San Mateo, California-based company, Wikia, had acquired web crawling technology from search site LookSmart. Wales and Co. will release the Grub technology under an open-source license and use it to power a community-developed search engine.
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