Aussie Technology to Improve Search Engines?
Aussie Technology to Improve Search Engines?
May 31, 2007: A suburban start-up in Melbourne has drawn the attention of search giants such as Google with a new search engine it claims does what the big guns do, only better.
The brainchild of self-taught programmer Rob Gabriel, MyLiveSearch claims to really put the live into search by extending traditional “search and cache” methods of online indexing.
Traditional search spiders from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! crawl the net adding pages to vast databases ready for queries. The problem with this, is new information is only added when a page is re-crawled, leaving only pages on the database’s “frequently updated” list being regularly scanned.
The MyLiveSearch engine builds on this technology with a browser plug in. First a search term is run through a typical search engine, then as results are returned MyLiveSearch performs deeper scanning on the fly, following embedded links to many more sites and turning up much more detailed results according to Gabriel.
According to Next, Gabriel says that results come back within seconds and it can even search pages generated dynamically – something other engines still struggle with.
“This has the potential to change the way people search the internet," Gabriel told the Sydney Morning Hearald’s Next. "Google can't search every page every day. The web is so dynamic and changes so often - MyLiveSearch turns your own computer into a 'super-spider' to search it in real time.”
The company is preparing to launch its engine in a public beta test over the next couple of weeks.
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