Re:Who's working on it? (Score 1)

The core search engine will be based on Exalead 's search engine. Exalead has been founded by the guys who developped Altavista's "Live Topics" feature and have a strong background in search technologies. As of today their engine just reached the 3 billion pages milestone, and is still growing. They also provide some nice features like the NEAR operator, clean clustering and even phonetic search. Worth a try !