Opera plus Mobile Meta Search Engine?

Opera made some big announcements last week.  Tony covered it for GoMo News here:
http://www.gomonews.com/mama-mia-operas-new-kind-of-search-engine/

there is also a direct link here: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mama/

What is it?
Well – it is called MAMA and it is a Metadata Analysis and Mining Application”.  The purpose of this is to find out what scripts are being used on mobile and how sites can be categorised from this

From the report:
Enter MAMA—the "Metadata Analysis and Mining Application". MAMA is a structural Web-page search engine—it trawls Web pages and returns results detailing page structures, including what HTML, CSS, and script is used on it, as well as whether the HTML validates. In this document, and the ones that link from it, you'll find data that has been pulled from MAMA so far. There is a lot of information here, but every effort has been made to keep it readable and interesting for the various types of people who might be interested in such data.

What we think?
I have to say that Opera might not know it but by even thinking of the concept of MAMA it is endorsing metaTXT and driving the same ambition of the metaTXT standard. What we aim to do is to enable ALL search engines to search. Opera seems to have stepped on one of the ideas that visibility mobile found when talking to search engines about the problems of mobile SEO, ranking and pulling the most relevant data or leading search engines to the best data.

So, in short I am delighted.  I will be contacted Opera and will invite them to join our working group on metaTXT. I will also explain why crawling a user agent is better than crawling the whole of the mobile web and why the metaTXT standard is vital for the success of the mobile Internet.  One search engine is a starting point. MAMA is a good idea –but we want to drive the whole mobile WEB and so this is when ALL search engines must follow one single standard.

Saying that... what a great initiative and I will definitely be using these results and referring back to this paper when I moderate or present.

Comments

[Ishtiaq]

Whoa! Thats great news! It will be total glory if they can actually implement it, specially for the designers as it will filter out the confusion and standards issue significantly.

However, will it not make any difference on the kinds of element the page itself is built upon? While traditionally most webpages are static in nature, but what about the CSS sites? CSS sites will have a lot more "CSS structures" built in it considering the foundation of the site is powered by CSS attributes alone. Segregating the results based on CSS structure is only for developers at the moment, however how about a search technology where the users can actually search like this "CSS site:visited by Nokia N-Series" or like "CSS & HTML "site:visited by MotoRazr"? This will alone open a new dimension because designers will be able to use the demand in the market. Say, if majority of the people are using Nokia N-Series and it has more capabilities than the Motorazr then the CSS based stats will not weigh up to the actual result right?

I still think that the whole mobile web needs a major change in terms of policies implemented. It really demotivates the actual designer because it really leaves no room for independent improvement. A designer usually wants a page to look good with it functioning properly on the search queries and spiders. With the current guidelines of the mobile web or .mobi, any designer just goes arrrrrrrrgh!! because XHTML validation is really not a designer's main focus, plus, even if it is not XHTML validated, it is still being crawled smoothly by the engines just fine. This makes a designer go arrrrrrrrrrrgh even more lol. Know what I mean?

Anyway, nice piccy beside the whitey! lol... Had to say that, bookmarked ya already and will be following ya every now and then. I am mobile and SEO freak, blogger, developer blah blah whatever you want me to be. Might just start a new blog beside my existing one to go against the standards of the dot mobi world lol... Keep up the fantastic job with both the blogs Bena!

[Ashley]

Glseek metasearch engine ( http://www.glseek.com ) can search and return results from Google, Yahoo, Live and Ask .
Its a powerful metasearch engine and i like it too much.
It can search for everything you want : web, images, videos.

(great), news, jobs, wikipedia, travel ,Shopping , blogs and ...

This metasearch engine has some unique features.
After searching it rank results by relevance. Why?
However Google, Yahoo, Live themselves rank results by relevance but as they are using of different algorithms, GLseek will rank results again to give best results to its users.
Most metasearch engines can return only limited results, for example they can give at most 300 results to the visitor but GLseek will give all results from above search engines to the visitor. It's a very unique technology which is used in this great search engine.
Glseek Metasearch engine has some softwares too:

1) Glseek Toolbar:

This toolbar has nice abilities:
Email Checker: It can check and receive your emails instantly without logging to your email account.
Auto filler: It fills all of your forms if you want.
Password Manager: It's one of the best password managers. It's really great and can save unlimited usernames and passwords if you want.
Save: By clicking on this icon, the current page will be saved as image.
Search Engine: It can search directly through Glseek search

engine in all languages.
Highlighter: It will highlight the searched words if you want,

for finding them easier in pages.and other abilities.
You can download the latest version of this toolbar from here:
http://www.glseek.com/toolbar.exe

2) Glseek Instant Search:

By opening this software, you directly will be guided to Glseek home page then you can search.
Or in the search box you can enter search term and see results.
You can download the latest version of this Instant Search from

here:
http://www.glseek.com/Browser.exe

It also has some nice search boxes for webmasters and you can get their codes here : http://www.glseek.com/meta_search_box.html