In 1995, Ward Cunningham established the first wiki Web site, the WikiWikiWeb, for the Portland Pattern Repository Project. In the years since, a number of wiki engines have been developed in a ...

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Palo Alto based startup SearchMe has kept a low profile since being founded in March 2005. The company, which has 17 employees and raised $5 million from Sequoia Capital over two rounds, will launch a ...

"We’re not building a global crawler search engine." “These grant terms — and our plans — are straightforward. We intend to research how Wikimedia users seek, find, and engage with content,” write the ...

Wikipedia recently received a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation for the first year of work on the “Knowledge Engine” project. According to the formal agreement between Wikipedia’s parent ...

Researchers in Sweden are developing a crowdsourced speech engine in an effort to make Wikipedia more accessible to the visually impaired. Wikimedia Sweden has partnered with the KTH Royal Institute ...

The search engine company SearchMe has launched a new service, Wikiseek, which indexes and searches the contents of Wikipedia and those sites which are referenced within Wikipedia. Though not ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US & Canadian companies news every morning. An internet search engine that draws on human recommendations is due to make its first ...