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 ...

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 ...

The Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative that will support the search software, which is used by developers around the world ...

Brave, the privacy-focused browser co-founded by ex-Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, is getting ready to launch an own-brand search engine for desktop and mobile. Today it's announced the acquisition of an ...

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 ...

Users need search. OpenSearch open source search and analytics technology is provided under an Apache 2.0 user license and is known for its capabilities in website search, but also in real-time ...

LibreOffice is free to download and install for Windows.

A U.K. startup called Simplexo has launched an open source enterprise search engine, joining a small but growing group of vendors hoping to crack the crowded technology space through that development ...

Anna's Archive, the open-source search engine for shadow libraries, says it scraped Spotify's entire library of music. The ...