Small Aussie outfit wants to give Google a kicking

Rob Gabriel of MyLiveSearch uses an engine which is live rather than building a vast index of web pages, via automated "spiders" that crawl through billions of web pages.

The engine works through a small browser plug-in and uses established search engines as "starting points" alongside the user's bookmarks and other popular web hubs.

Then it crawls through hundreds of web pages connected to those starting points in search of more information relevant to the search.

Gabriel told the Australian press that the results come back in seconds, and are almost always richer, more detailed and more useful than a standard, index-based search. It can also handle dynamically-generated web pages that search engines can't index.

A beta of the system is set to be released soon, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, here. µ