Maybe it’s just Yahoo! trying out the competition, but a press release from Tucson, AZ-based Webglimpse.net, maintainers of the Glimpse search engine, say that Yahoo! has “purchased several licenses” of its software for internal use. Glimpse is a C program for fast searching of large numbers of text files on Unix systems. It is at the core of Webglimpse, a website search engine.
WebGlimpse’s Golda Velez says: “As I understand it this will be used by Yahoo! and Overture developers as a tool to search local datasets, possibly a large code base.” Why isn’t Yahoo using its own software for this kind of thing?