Open source activists have put together Nutch search engine technology which may bring an alternative to the regular search engine field.

Mozdex Open Source Search Engine – Spotlight #1 I’ve been following Mozdex for about a year or so after meeting its owner, Byron Miller, on SitePoint Forums and being amazed with some of the ...

If you've been following the tale behind Wikia, you would know that Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has something up his sleeve that he believes will revolutionize the way we all search the web.

Founded in 2020, Quickwit is an open source, cloud-native search and analytics engine built for large datasets.

There have been rumblings in the Wikimedia community since last year that a better search engine is on the way and it looks like that’s true – but not everyone’s happy. In a $250,000 grant ...

Commercial search-engine providers soon could face a serious competitor if the vision of some open-source developers materializes. A team of open-source programmers recently launched a project ...

Meilisearch, a startup building an open search and fully managed search engine framework, has raised $15 million in a venture funding round.

Today the Apache Foundation released a major update to the open source search engine building tools Lucene and Solr. Version 4.0 adds several new features aimed at making Solr easier to use, more ...

The founder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia plans today to launch a new search engine, Wikia Search, that will compete with Google Inc. and others. The search engine is the latest effort from ...

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is targeting the fourth quarter of this year for the unveiling of an open-source search engine, he said in Tokyo.

Dan Collins shares Bloomberg’s approach to developing a real-time search and alert framework using open source search software Lucene and Solr.

So much sickness, so much data, so little time. To help make sense of coronavirus research Verizon Media has created Vespa, an open-source big data search engine.