[Search-l] big announcement: grub is back!

[peter burden]

jer wrote:
> I'm sending this as Jimmy is on stage announcing it in his keynote  
> here at OSCON, telling how Wikia has been working with LookSmart to  
> acquire the Grub project and open-source it again.
>
> A lot of work has gone into this process and I want to thank Jimmy,  
> Gil, and some of the thoughtful folks at LookSmart.
>
> Grub was open a long time ago, and it is now again.  We're going to  
> be working hard over the coming weeks to get the codebase up on a  
> repository and keep the service running in a testing mode so people  
> can start to play with it, so keep an eye on grub.org and it's wiki  
> page, http://search.wikia.com/wiki/Grub.
>   
Just downloaded and it looks interesting. Nice to see the project moving
ahead and as soon as I get it running it'll be interesting to see how it
copes with some of the odder sites on the WWW. Noted the use of C++ and 
SOAP.

Just wondering if the same (or similar) effect could be achieved using 
"wget", a
shell script and simple compressing/parsing back end ??

> On the "big vision" map, this is just one project, a distributed  
> crawler, and all of the contents and results it will compile will be  
> fully available under an open document license (yay!).
>
> There is more coming along these lines, more projects, this looks  
> like an exciting trend :)
>
> Jer
>
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