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If you go to mylivesearch.com, you're greeted with the statement "My Live Search is the first, true 'real-time' search engine to appear on the www", which would be cool, if it wasn't for one little problem. It's not actually online yet. Confidence is a good thing, but you can't talk about how your product is the coolest thing on the web, when it's not actually there yet. That seems silly. The best thing on the site is the quote ".....and they thought it couldn't be done!" Ignoring the fact that they lead in with 5 periods for some reason, they talk as though they've already proven all the doubters wrong already. Maybe this is needless skepticism, but it just comes off like the tiny kid in high school who's so insecure about his size and ability that he makes things up to make himself feel more important. You know the kid. He was about 5'3 and 88 pounds but always told the story about how he beat up 3 guys at the same time who were all at least 6 feet tall. An article from Australia's "The Age", where the company is based, claims that Google is keeping a close eye on the start up, although you'd have to assume that if Google was really concerned about the competition they would have simply bought them out by now. Reading the quotes from the creator, Robert Gabriel, you get the sense that he really believes that he's got it all figured out. Even his photo makes him look miles too overconfident. If enthusiasm and confidence were moustaches and the ability to attract middle aged women, Gabriel would be Tom Selleck. Ignoring the smarminess of this guy, he might actually have a solid idea. The search engine he's created combs the web in real time, instead of using indexed database results. This ensures that as the web changes, the search results will change along with it. It also allows parts of the web not indexed by sites such as Google to be looked at. We'll see how well the whole thing works when a public beta is launched in the coming weeks.
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Subscribe to commentsElliotMay 29th 2007 3:48PM
Oh, the irony.
Chris CareyMay 29th 2007 4:07PM
Thats a awful big post about nothing, I can't believe I actually read a post filled with nothing, about a webpage with nothing, for absolutely no reason.
http://www.noheat.com
XeniaMay 30th 2007 8:03AM
Have they read the book "10 Things to avoid when announcing your web site"? They took those 10 things and put it on their page. Two other remarks:
1) Possible trademark conflict with Microsoft Live Search. If you can choose a name freely, you shouldn't be that dumb to take a similar name
2) They claim to search the web live (no stored indexes). This is simply not possible. You cannot search millions of web sites at the same time. If it was 1st of April, I'd call it April fools.
Nuff said.
Pascal
http://olpc.com
ulicarMay 31st 2007 11:38AM
As far as I can see, this is not a real time search, not by a long shot.
What they will probably do is similar to what C4 was doing years ago, and that is, hit all major search engines, re-evaluate results (pull them, index them and perform search on that subset) and return them in the order of new “results”.
Now, if you don’t remember C4, they were doing similar thing, but they are dead now. Why, you ask? Too slow, which will happen to this "service", with result-set not good enough to make you visit the page again. In my opinion it is a really bad idea, and the fault of that idea was proven by C4, but I will have to wait for the "service" to go online, to see if I was wrong.
Daniel EderJun 4th 2007 10:34AM
I wouldn't believe anything pre-release because they have been involved with so much unimportant things:
look here:
http://www.mylivesearch.com/overthephone/preapinfo.php
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:mylivesearch.com&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=MTC&start=10&sa=N
I bet its just hyped without any technology
Daniel @ http://www.vybr.com
DarrenJun 17th 2007 11:24PM
Hi,
I was one of the original software engineers to work on this project. Believe it or not it is true. A live search engine. The browser searches the net live! Everbody's computer that uses the browser software becomes a spider for the web. each search is then indexed to the mylivesearch database so everybody else on the net can access it like a regular search engine. The livesearch database has also its own 'spiders' constantly scanning the net updating automatically. All people who use the browser and search contribute. Just think millions of computers at one time could 'livesearch' crawl the net, indexing pages. Within a very short time the whole net would be mapped.
By the way, Mylivesearch came way before microsoft copied the idea. So microsoft are in fact infringing over the livesearch copyright. Some final tweaking of the website is underway before its official launch. But one would have noticed for 2 years now up until a couple of weeks ago that the test website was running.
HellionJul 22nd 2007 8:57AM
Ulicar, and the other skeptics out there, I would not talk too much until you have seen the product. And just remember also, google was not a multi-billion dollar comapny when IT first started. So people should get there facts right before they open their mouths.
ulicarJul 20th 2007 2:27AM
@Hellion & Darren
I made my opinion based on the information provided. That is why I said "but I will have to wait for the 'service' to go online, to see if I was wrong."
From what was offered earlier in the Age article and what was offered in the rest of the media, this was not live, but meta-search, a big difference.
I would love to be proven wrong, because I live in Melbourne, but from the information offered, I do not think it is a live search. Again “I will have to wait for the 'service' to go online, to see if I was wrong."