Rating: Research project uncovers truth about the web
A search that searches web pages sounds rather dull. Until you realise that Opera‘s new search engine indexes the markup, style, scripting and the technology (ie the metadata) used by Web pages.
Hence, it is known as MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) and was created so that Opera’s own software engineers working away amongst the Fiords could get vital on what is really being used out there.
The engine itself doesn’t appear to be fully open to the public quite yet (although signing up would be a good idea). However, its key findings are available.
Including answers to such questions as, “How many sites use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)?” A: 80.4 per cent of MAMA’s URLs.
Opera claims that MAMA “is up to the task of tackling vague questions that don’t have easy answers, like “how many sites are mobile-ready?” We’d love to know the answer to that one.
Maybe Opera is keeping the answer to itself for the time being. Or maybe there’s some dispute over exactly what constitutes ‘mobile-ware’?
More likely is the fact that MAMA is currently only categorising 3.5 million web pages and Opera isn’t yet sure that it has a truly representative sample.
It’s a fascinating project – well worth a visit here.
Chris, I disagree. If that is the case it should have been called Kindy (from Kinder/ handy) not Kandy – which is obviously a sweet. Madonna’s Hot Kandy is not made for kids.
thanks bena