The Apache Lucene project develops open-source search software, including: * Lucene Java, our flagship sub-project, provides Java-based indexing and search technology. * Nutch builds on Lucene Java to provide web search application software.
Wikia, last week bought the distributed crawler Grub from LookSmart and plans to make it available in open source. Not that LookSmart was really using it anyway — and they also did ad business with Wikia.
LULOP2 is a "Internet news gathering" platform, i.e. an integrated platform meant to perform -in an open publishing environment- the logistic and transaction stages of "news gathering" in the specific meaning that the broadcast news industry gives to the