Toward a 3D Search Engine

Plasma Droid writes "NewScientistTech has a story about a 3D molecular search engine that is over 1,500 times faster than anything previously developed. The researchers, from Oxford University, developed a lightning-fast way to quickly match 3D shapes mathematically. This could not only speed up searches for new drugs, but lead to 3D search engines, for finding objects uploaded to platforms such as Google Earth, they say." The problem will be in jump-starting the supply of 3D data about molecules and everything else.

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[Anonymous Coward]

In experiments the technique, dubbed Ultrafast Shape Recognition (USR), was found to be more than 1500 times faster

Is USR, search engine boobies you!!

Thank Carmack et al.

[G3ckoG33k]

Thanks Carmack et al. for releasing the Quake and Doom series under GPL.