MyLiveSearch has released its public beta version on last August 29. In order to use the service, one must download their search plugin, a small executable file in the browser. The method MyLiveSearch used was unclear to most people as their patent technology still pending as in today. When I entered some search keywords, the query that MyLiveSearch returned was “trawl”, as stated by them by using an user’s computer. On their landing page, they said they’ll use the user’s PC and your computer will in turn become the search engine. If you notice the search results that MyLiveSearch return, the search results will appear in a one-page layout format and it takes some time for this plugin to fetch the results. Moreover, the number of results found as well as the ranking of the top sites will not be the same if you enter the same keyword twice in the search bar. If you scroll down the page, MyLiveSearch has omitted some results, they named those as “poor results” in order to demonstrate the most best results. How they define “poor results” was not clear at this moment, maybe they’re ranking very low in terms of Google’s Page Rank or users never follow the headings and/or subheadings of these “poor” sites to find any other relevant Web pages.

I believed the growth of this search plugin is gaining momentum and it catches most people’s eyes because it is the world’s first live search engine. Being the first live search engine, we count on it and hopefully it will guide us efficiently to the information, and they did provided the ease of interface use by putting the “myResults” and “myGroups” functions on the site. The “myResults” allows an user to take a 360 degree views of how a site use a particular keyword, and why this particular site was included in this search results. On the other hand, “myGroups” provides the grouping method and effect of a particular site. Though these functions seem to be very cool, but I believe many users never bothered to use or test it.

I have mixed feelings each time I write about a new search service. On one hand, I hope it will be well conceived and acceptably by many new users. On the other hand, I were unsure about how a new search plugin, i.e. MyLiveSearch going to create a forward momentum as I do not want to rely on it when conduct searches on the Web.

I just came cross an interesting article that entitled, “Mylivesearch aims for beta to better,” that caught the eyes of Google. My Live Search, indeed has been developed in the Down Under for the past eight (8) years and self-funded. According to the creator, Robert Gabriel said his search engine gives better, more relevant results than the search king because it is a truly “live” search, by means of a a small browser plug-in. Furthermore, My Live Search can also search the so-called “invisible web” of dynamically-generated web pages that search engines have trouble indexing, as quoted by him.

Though some said “Talk is Cheap,” but the reality is some talks are not cheap. but And I will reserve my viewpoint or any judgement until we all see this search engine goes live in June next month.