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Google Faces Competition From Down Under

by Tim Stevens on May 29, 2007 at 01:02 PM

The latest challenge to Google's seat on the search throne is MyLiveSearch, a small Aussie outfit claiming to deliver "better, more relevant" search results than the current king. It plans to beat the competition by searching the Web in a totally new way.

Current search engines index the contents of Web sites to provide snapshots of how pages look at that moment they're processed by the search engine. Unfortunately, this means a given search result could be hours, days or even weeks out of date -- a giant problem for dynamically created pages such as news sites and blogs.

MyLiveSearch claims to offer "live" Web searching: Search results that are always current, enabling you to find a Web site whether the text you're searching for was added five minutes ago or five months ago. This works through a browser plug-in, which runs search terms through Google's current index of the Web. It then combines the results with your own bookmarks and other popular Web destinations to form a list of starting points. From these starting points, the live search crawls the Web looking for the most up-to-date, most relevant results possible.

It's an interesting idea that could have an incredible effect on search since an estimated four out of five dynamically created Web sites aren't invited to the Google party. What remains to be seen is just how well and how quickly this will work. Thankfully, that's a question we should be able to answer shortly when the site launches sometime in the latter-half of June.

From TechCrunch

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