Wikiwix
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Wikiwix[1] is a web-based search engine that indexes and searches Wikipedia articles. It also provides a related archiving service that preserves snapshots of referenced web pages.[2]
Wikiwix is not a wiki, as the name might suggest, but is a multilingual internet search engine operating independently of the Wikimedia Foundation. However, its search results are provided solely from the Wikipedia database.[3] It also provides an archiving service which sees extensive use in the French Wikipedia.[4]
The search engine is developed by a French company, Linterweb, which also provided sponsorship towards publishing Wikipedia 0.5 on DVD in 2007.[5][6]
