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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google uses machine learning and graphs to deliver search results. Most search engines do not. Weaviate wants to change that.

Today it's announced the acquisition of an open source search engine developed by the team behind the (now defunct) Cliqz anti-tracking search-browser combo.

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

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.

Wikia Search, the Jimbo Wales-backed open-source search project, officially launches today after a year of development. Wales, a Wikipedia co-founder, wants to "do cool stuff" by launching the ...

LinkedIn has also released a number of other search-related technologies as open source as well. Bobo is a Java-based extension to Apache Lucene that can search semi-structured data.

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.