Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.

Why is it broken? It is broken for the same reason that proprietary software is always broken: lack of freedom, lack of community, lack of accountability, lack of transparency. Here, we will start to change all that.

Grub started back in 2000 with a simple concept of distributing part of the search process pipeline: crawling. In a way, we were a bit ahead of our time, but our intention then was what it is now. We want to help fix search.

Now, with the help of community members and Open Source developers our time has come again. Come be part of something greater. Come help us change the World.

Grub need your help

Submitted by thindil on Sat, 01/23/2010 - 12:42.

As you noticed, Grub some time ago lost own server. Unfortunately, by last month we don't find any other for replacement. Thus I must ask for help everyone outside of project.
For continue work on Grub we need: one server with 2-3GB of RAM and around 200 GB of disk space. Plus around 30-50GB monthly bandwidth for network connection.
If we want create normal search engine, Grub need a really good server (or better servers), especially, with a lots of disk space and good network connection.

Grub Next Generation database tool 0.2 released

Submitted by thindil on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 12:08.

Second alpha release of Grub Next Generation database tool is available. Changes since last release (0.1):

- added option to delete URL's from Solr during maintenance work
- added better check for double URL's
- added validation hostname
- fixed bug with URL's validation
- drop memory usage during create database backup

You can download source code and zip compressed server from project page.

Grub Next Generation upload server 0.8.2 released

Submitted by thindil on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 11:53.

Next beta version of Grub Next Generation C# upload server is available. Changes since last release (0.8.1):

- fixed bug with update URL's in URL's database
- fixed bug with information about server status
- fixed bug with crash uploader on invalid data in .arc file
- added option to autoreload configuration file if was changed
- new configuration file layout
- adding to URL's database only more recent versions of URL's
- some code optimization
- rewrite some code to work with .NET platform

Grub C# client 0.9.1 released

Submitted by thindil on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 10:06.

New version of Grub Next Generation C# client is available. Changes since last release (0.9):

- fixed bug with crash client on startup
- fixed bug with not close preferences dialog
- fixed bug with invalid show amount of received and sent bytes
- fixed bug #174: Program shortcut in start menu doesn't work
- fixed bug #468: Problem entering proxy server address
- fixed bug with crash client on download new workunits
- fixed bug with crash client on upload when other program read compressed .arc file
- added three more HTTP responses from upload server
- update Spanish (author: Dennis Tobar) and German (author: noxin) translations

Grub Next Generation upload server 0.8.1 released

Submitted by thindil on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 08:26.

Next beta version of Grub Next Generation C# upload server is available. Changes since last release (0.8):

- fixed bug with crash uploader on invalid HTML META tag
- fixed bug with crash uploader on invalid data in file
- fixed bug with crash uploader on connect to Solr
- fixed bug with crash server on invalid HTTP status code in .arc file
- fixed bug with crash server on prematurely closed connection
- added write to Solr only this pages which can be converted to UTF-8
- added remove all control characters from Solr UpdateXML

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