Wikipedia Takes on Google With New 'Transparent' Search Engine

Newsweek - By Anthony Cuthbertson On 2/16/16 

Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has launched a $2.5 million program to build “the Internet’s first transparent search engine.”

Wikimedia Discovery, originally known as the Knowledge Engine, is being developed initially through funds granted to Wikipedia’s parent organization, the Wikimedia Foundation, and takes direct aim at major search engines like Google.

Wikimedia’s application for a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation states: “Commercial search engines dominate search-engine use of the Internet, and they’re employing proprietary technologies to consolidate channels of access to the Internet’s knowledge and information.”
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