MyLiveSearch
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[edit] MyLiveSearch
MyLiveSearch claims to be the world's "first" real time search engine. It was developed in Australia by self-taught developer Rob Gabriel. Based on the concept of "real-time" searching, MyLiveSearch allows the user to download the content of many hundreds of webpages using their computer to perform a local search[1]. It requires that a plugin be downloaded and installed on the user's computer. Starting off with a few websites as starting points, the user selects what they would like to search then MyLiveSearch, using the user's computer and internet connection, downloads webpages in real-time and searches them for results until stopped.[2]
Publicity and criticism
MyLiveSearch first made an impact on the 28th of March 2007 when "The Age", an Australian newspaper released an article titled "From Beta to Better". The tool was later referenced on techCrunch and several other websites. This lead to criticism from some corners[3] implying that the business was merely trying to generate "buzz" around its yet-unreleased product.
After release the tool also generated criticism in online discussion as a result of ignoring the Robots Exclusion Standard and its behaviour of attempting to submit any HTML form found on a page, being compared to some of the web scraping tools used by spammers[4].
