Opera Software has led a first-of-its-
kind project to create a search engine that tracks how Web pages are
structured on the World Wide Web. When released publicly in the coming
months, this engine will help browser makers and standards bodies work
towards a more standards-driven and compatible Web.Opera today announced results from its MAMA (Metadata Analysis and
Mining Application) search engine, a brainchild of Opera engineers
that indexes the markup, style, scripting and the technology used
while creating Web pages. From the beginning, Opera has been a leading
innovator and MAMA is proof of the company’s deep understanding of the
Web.The MAMA search engine scours 3.5 million Web pages, and the resulting
data can answer questions such as "can I get a sampling of Web pages
that have more than 100 hyperlinks?" or "what does an average Web page
look like?"—a dream come true for Web developers.
Scott Hale on 16 Oct 08This is a great way to analyize general development trends on the web, etc. but will this really lead to a "search engine"?
