Opera to Web developers: Come to MAMA

New search engine helps figure out which Web technologies are most popular October 15, 2008 (IDG News Service) Opera Software on Wednesday revealed a search engine that indexes structural information about Web pages so Web developers and standards bodies can see what technologies are being used to build Web sites and how they are being used. The Metadata Analysis and Mining Application search engine -- "MAMA" for short -- is being tested by the company and should be released in an invitation-only beta by the end of the year, said Snorre Grimsby, vice president of quality assurance at Opera in Oslo, Norway. MAMA grew out of tests Opera routinely does to make sure its own browser products work well with existing Web pages that use the most common Web site-creation technology, he said. "We realized internally that we needed to... [read full story]