Submission + - An American Search Alternative to Google (kickstarter.com)
TehBeer writes: "We're starting a Kickstarter to create an open source search engine not based on the Stanford Patented PageRank system licensed by Google that was originally derived from Baidu founder Robin Lee's Rankdex. It uses a FOSS Apache stack comprising of HBase, Hadoop, Whirr, and Data Nucleus and Spring Framework 3. The source code license costs $25 because we don't want to make it FOSS and mail people CDs and waste plastic to give the impression of value such as other Kickstarter open software projects have."