Grub was an open source distributed search crawler platform.
[1] Users of Grub could download the peer-to-peer client software and let it run during their computer's idle time.
[3][4] Intellectual property rights were acquired from Grub in January 2003 for $1.3 million in cash and stock by LookSmart.
[5] For a short time the original team continued working on the project, releasing several new versions of the software, albeit under a closed license.
[6] Wikia, now called Fandom, released the Grub source under an open-source license.