TechCrunch
plus-bold
TechCrunch
Open Navigation
TechCrunch
Grub
Wikia Acquires Distributed Web Crawler Grub
Jul 27, 2007
Wikia has acquired the distributed web crawling engine Grub from Looksmart. Grub utlizes spare computing cycles on users’ computers to index the web, a similar concept to that used by SETI@home