Can Open Source Beat Google Search?

August 3rd, 2007

On Friday at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, Wikia, a Web 2.0 company cofounded by Jimmy Wales, gave the world an update on its progress toward building a new search platform based on open-source software and human collaboration.In a morning keynote address, Wales discussed his vision and business models for building search from a set of open-source software tools known collectively as LAMP. LAMP is an acronym for the Linux operating system, Apache Web server , MySQL database management system, and PHP programming language.

“We’ve had a tremendous response from very interesting commercial players in the search space,” Wales said in a statement. “The desire to collaborate and support a transparent and open platform for search is clearly deeply exciting to both open source and businesses.”

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