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2007

Grub. Jimmy Wales just announced at OSCON that Wikia have acquired Grub from LookSmart, and will be releasing it as open source.

# 27th July 2007, 5:24 pm / grub, jimmywales, looksmart, open-source, oscon, oscon07, search, wikia

The basic concept here is given the ongoing dramatic drop in the price of bandwidth and hardware, they cost very little. I looked at the bandwidth bill for Wikipedia, for instance, and it is actually substantially lower in the last year than the year before, despite traffic growing by a factor of 4.

Jimmy Wales

# 25th January 2007, 2:02 am / bandwidth, jimmywales, mooreslaw, wikipedia