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

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 ...

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 ...

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

But there are options, and the push toward open source versions of the Google search engine has gathered some steam in recent months, with the arrival of a new company called ElasticSearch.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

"It's a great idea to have an open-source search engine--much like an open-source directory" such as the Open Directory Project used by America Online and Google, Sullivan said. "But if you do ...