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Steve Anderson (via e-mail) wrote:

the founders of wikipedia are developing a search engine:
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSL1964587420070420?pageNu...

I tried it in beta seems to work really well:
http://www.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Search&cx=00694622795176895...

UPDATE from ben: When I tried it it works well too, but it's using Google's custom search, not its own, for web searches: http://www.google.com/coop/cse/?hl=en

now is a product of Yahoo.Inktomi's index size is approaching three billion documents, which is comparable to AllTheWeb and Google

IBM's open source 'concept search' UIMA
the SlashDot thread on it: http://slashdot.org/articles/05/08/08/2337236.shtml?tid=95&tid=136&tid=1

And a subthread brings up distributed search ala the SETI project.

http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/

Nutch is an open source search engine project now backed by the Apache Foundation; it graduated from the "Apache incubator" in June. Can't get more promising than that, can it? But the box in the upper right-hand corner says "Search this site with Google."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teoma

Teoma is unique because of its link popularity algorithm. Unlike Google's PageRank, Teoma's technology (Subject-Specific Popularity) analyzes links in context to rank a web page's importance within its specific subject. For instance, a web page about 'baseball' will rank higher if other web pages about 'baseball' link to it.

Many parts of Teoma's relevancy algorithm are based on the methodology IBM developed for its Clever project.

http://NewStandardNews.net/

Exactly the kind of independent media we want to protect and promote – a daily online newspaper of hard news stories from a pro-people point of view – and also where the idea for openzuka had its genesis in comments to a blog entry by editor Brian Dominick.

http://www.alternativemediagateway.com/

Alternative Media Gateway was a just-getting-off-the-ground project in 2005 to "bypass the corporate media," including with an internet news search.