Translations:Wikimedia Discovery/Knowledge Engine FAQ/8/en

In the past some within the WMF talked about building a noncommercial search engine. The WMF thought about that direction but that did not go anywhere as an actual deliverable. By the time this page was created the focus was on the search function of Wikimedia projects and [$knight-announcement the joint announcement with Knight] noted that the focus of initial research was improving the in-house function. That announcement also leaves open the possibility of broadening the reach of the program as it develops to include other publicly available sources of information. In February 2016 the management of the WMF [$blog-url clarified] that the WMF is "not building a global crawler search engine."