Google faces more than just a new rival in Wikia

Google Inc. and other search engines face far more than just a new rival in Wikia Inc.; they face the prospect of hundreds, even thousands of new competitors.

The entire search-engine project that Wikia is working on will enter the open-source domain, drastically reducing the cost for just about anyone to make a search engine, said Gil Penchina, the company's CEO. Instead of paying millions of dollars to index the Web and create the software to build a search page, new search companies will find these items free online thanks to the open-source and free software communities.

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