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Opera Develops Search Engine For Web Developers

Posted by Soulskill on from the web-devs-need-love-too dept.

nk497 writes "The Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA) doesn't index content like a standard search engine, but looks at markup, style, scripting and the technology behind pages. Based on those existing MAMA-ed pages, 80.4 per cent of sites use cascading style sheets (CSS), while the average web page has 47 markup errors and 16,400 characters. Should you want to know which country is using the AJAX component XMLHttpRequest the most, MAMA can tell you that it's Norway, with 10.2 per cent of the data set." Additional coverage is available at Computerworld, and a deeper explanation is up at Opera's Dev site.

31 comments

  1. We did this yesterday by Animats · · Score: 1, Interesting

    This is a dup. It's not a very interesting result, either. A list of the most common HTML tags? Big whoop.

    1. Re:We did this yesterday by hkmwbz · · Score: 1

      Yeah, because knowing what the web is actually made of is completely useless to people and companies who are supposed to be able to handle said web, and need to know what to focus on...

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  2. Re:Frosty Piss by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Funny

    I want to go on the record as denying all association with the parent troll. It does not meet my exceptionally low standard for Slashdot trolls and does not even mention Russia or Hot Grits.

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  3. I wonder if it can mine.... by PsyberS · · Score: 5, Funny

    what percentage of /. articles are dupes. Now that would be useful!

    1. Re:I wonder if it can mine.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh, that one's way too easy to make the news. 66%. One third are originals, one third duplicates those, and one third duplicates the duplicates.

    2. Re:I wonder if it can mine.... by compro01 · · Score: 1

      What about the duplicates of the duplicates of the duplicates? We need to figure out how many levels of recursion they can achieve.

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    3. Re:I wonder if it can mine.... by trickyb · · Score: 3, Funny

      What about the duplicates of the duplicates of the duplicates? We need to figure out how many levels of recursion they can achieve.

      Ah, it's simple: it's turtles all the way down.

  4. This is the question.. by sw155kn1f3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    >> Should you want to know which country is using the AJAX component XMLHttpRequest the most, MAMA can tell you that it's Norway, with 10.2 per cent of the data set."

    Will MAMA tell you why you still live in her basement? This would be astonishingly useful for the entire slashdot population.
    MAMAing (as in googling) these things is priceless.

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  5. Yo by iamapizza · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yo! MAMA's so slow, she had to post on slashdot twice to get her point across.

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  6. OFFTOPIC RANT by gzipped_tar · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The /. tagging system is borked. Look at all the recent tagtrolls.

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    1. Re:OFFTOPIC RANT by mobby_6kl · · Score: 3, Funny

      What, are you disputing the fact that anal dildos are fun?

    2. Re:OFFTOPIC RANT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      If the tags annoy you just turn them off.

      Oh wait, that doesn't work any more.

      http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2146380&group_id=4421&atid=104421

    3. Re:OFFTOPIC RANT by mdwh2 · · Score: 1

      On that note, the tagging system doesn't seem to work at all in Opera, IE or Chrome anymore - only Firefox. The tags can't be seen or added to. (I know this is Slashdot, but we don't all use Firefox...)

    4. Re:OFFTOPIC RANT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Not true - I can see the tags in Opera on Linux.

    5. Re:OFFTOPIC RANT by mdwh2 · · Score: 1

      In Opera 9.02 on Windows, I can see tags, but not add my own.

      In IE6, I can't see or add tags.

      In Chrome, I can sort of see tags, but they're a bit jumbled up, and I can't add my own.

      (I know, I should get round to submitting a bug, though I'm curious if it's not been noticed - it's not my single machine, this occurs on both my machines, and my work PC.)

    6. Re:OFFTOPIC RANT by ksd1337 · · Score: 1

      You mean farked.

  7. Maybe I'm stupid... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't find a link anywhere to this MAMA search engine.

    1. Re:Maybe I'm stupid... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://my.opera.com/operaqa/blog/2008/10/15/mama-what-is-the-web-made-of

    2. Re:Maybe I'm stupid... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unless I'm still stupid, that's a link to a blog entry about how great the MAMA search engine is, without a link to the search engine itself.

  8. Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Its interesting to note that Google calls their internal company search engine Mama.

    1. Re:Google by grikdog · · Score: 0, Troll

      Steed, Peel & King calls theirs Mother, speaking of antique fedora.

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