Melbourne start-up that claims to be developing a search engine that improves
on the world leader.

MyLiveSearch, which plans to go live as a public beta in a few
weeks, is the brainchild of self-taught software developer Rob
Gabriel.

Mr Gabriel, 35, says his search engine gives better, more
relevant results than the search king because it is a truly “live”
search.

Google’s search engine works by building a vast index of web
pages, via automated “spiders” that crawl through billions of web
pages a year. However this represents only a fraction of the
enormous, sprawling internet, and the index can never be entirely
up to date.

Yahoo! search and (despite its name) Microsoft’s Live search
work the same way.

MyLiveSearch is fundamentally different. It works through a
small browser plug-in. The search terms are put through Google, or
other indexed search databases, but those results are treated as
“starting points” alongside the user’s bookmarks and other popular
web hubs.

From there, the live search takes over, crawling through
hundreds of web pages connected to those starting points in search
of more information relevant to the search.

Mr Gabriel says the results come back in seconds, and are almost
always richer, more detailed and more useful than a standard,
index-based search. His product can also search the so-called
“invisible web” of dynamically-generated web pages that search
engines have trouble indexing.

“This has the potential to change the way people search the
internet,” he said. “Google can’t search every page every day (to
build its index). The web is so dynamic and changes so often -
MyLiveSearch turns your own computer into a ’super-spider’ to
search it in real time.

“This technology could be snapped onto any of the major search
engines and improve them.”

A Google business development representative has met with the
MyLiveSearch team at least twice - once when the technology was at
a very early stage, and again last week after Next made inquiries
about Google’s interest in the project.

Google did not want to comment on MyLiveSearch, except in
general terms.

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