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Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has launched a $2.5 million program to build "the Internet's first transparent search engine." Wikimedia Discovery, originally known as the Knowledge Engine, is being ...

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 ...

The Wikipedia Foundation, which runs the free encyclopedia "Wikipedia" that anyone can edit, will find "Knowledge Engine by WikipediaIt seems that Google has come up to the world of search engines ...

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 ...

Update 12/25/06: Jimmy Wales says this isn’t a Wikiasari screen shot. So what is it? The Times reported earlier today that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is planning to launch a new search engine next ...

"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 ...

Knight Foundation money to be used for Knowledge Engine project that aims to discover "reliable and trustworthy public information on the Internet." The Wikimedia Foundation is getting back into ...

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 ...