We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US & Canadian companies news every morning. An internet search engine that draws on human recommendations is due to make its first ...

Wikipedia recently received a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation for the first year of work on the “Knowledge Engine” project. According to the formal agreement between Wikipedia’s parent ...

It appears that Wikipedia could be building its own search engine, despite denials from site founder Jimmy Wales. Documents have emerged that suggest that Wikipedia has invested $2.5 million into the ...

So, while the Wikimedia Foundation may not be building a general web search engine, turning Wikipedia itself into a search engine that reduces reliance on traditional search engines could have a ...