Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is targeting the fourth quarter of this year for the unveiling of an open-source search engine that he hopes could challenge the dominance of market-leaders Google Inc.

Search Wikia, the widely awaited search engine from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is slated to make its official debut on Monday, with the bet that an open-source, community-driven effort can disrupt ...

Something important happened at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last month, and it did not get nearly the attention it deserved.

AWS today announced that it is transitioning OpenSearch, its open source fork of the popular Elasticsearch search and analytics engine, to the Linux Foundation with the launch of the very aptly named ...

Simply stated, Microsoft’s reliance on open source software for Kumo has been inevitable. Microsoft tried going it alone by developing their own proprietary search technology and failed. Even if ...

Sphinx ranks fifth on our list of the most powerful alternatives to Elasticsearch. Sphinx is a full text search engine with text search functionality. The open source text search server offers vector ...

A twisty, years-long brouhaha centered around open-source licensing has taken another turn, with an Amazon Web Services (AWS) project based on Elasticsearch being turned over to a new group under the ...

The top 7 AI search engines for 2025 are ranked. This year they're offering opportunities for more traffic to websites. AI-powered search engines have made significant strides in the past year with ...

Search as we know it — keywords, autofill, navigation — is undergoing rapid change. Still, LLMs are expensive to train, deploy and maintain — and existing models like ChatGPT only have access to ...