Editing Grub (search engine)

{{distinguish|text= [[GNU GRUB]], the boot loader}}
'''Grub''' was an [[Open source software|open source]] [[Distributed web crawling|distributed search]] crawler platform.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grub |url=http://grub.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030130015439/http://grub.org/ |archive-date=2003-01-30 |website=grub.org}}</ref>

Users of Grub could [[download]] the [[peer-to-peer]] client [[computer software|software]] and let it run during their computer's idle time. The client fetched a list of [[URL|URLs]] from the main grub server, indexed them and sent them back to the main grub [[Server (computing)|server]] in a [[Bandwidth compression|compressed]] form.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Client Downloads |url=http://www.grub.org/html/downloads.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030208010718/http://www.grub.org/html/downloads.php |archive-date=2003-02-08 |website=grub.org}}</ref>

== History ==
Grub, Inc. was founded in 2000 by Kord Campbell in [[Oklahoma City]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=grub.org - Investors |url=http://www.grub.org/investors.html |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001209031600/http://www.grub.org/investors.html |archive-date=2000-12-09 |website=grub.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=grub.org - Owners |url=http://www.grub.org/owners.php |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010408054446/http://www.grub.org/owners.php |archive-date=2001-04-08 |website=grub.org}}</ref> Intellectual property rights were acquired from Grub in January 2003 for $1.3 million in cash and stock by [[LookSmart]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1077866/000119312504214657/dex993.htm |access-date=2024-07-31 |website=www.sec.gov}}</ref> For a short time the original team continued working on the project, releasing several new versions of the software, albeit under a closed license.

Operations of Grub were shut down in late 2005. On July 27, 2007, [[Jimmy Wales]] announced that [[Wikia]], then developing an open-source search engine called [[Wikia Search]], had acquired Grub from [[LookSmart]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-08-09 |title=Wikipedia founder to challenge Google and Yahoo |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUST34811320070308/ |access-date=2024-07-31 |work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> Wikia, now called [[Fandom (website)|Fandom]], released the Grub source under an [[open-source license]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-07-27 |title=Jimmy Wales and Wikia Release Open Source Distributed Web Crawler Tool |url=http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia_OSCON |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821061921/http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia_OSCON |archive-date=2007-08-21 |website=Wikia}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Grub (search engine)}}
*{{sourceforge|grub}}

{{Distributed search engines}}

[[Category:Internet search engines]]
[[Category:Free search engine software]]
[[Category:Free web crawlers]]


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