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New Trails in Search - Trexy and Turbo10

New Trails in Search - Trexy and Turbo10 By Kalena Jordan

I'm often sent media releases about new search engines or software that all claim to be a first in the industry for something. These "exciting concepts in search" rarely turn out to be anything but Google wannabes dressed in a more exciting skin.

So my attitude to a Media Release about up and coming search engines Trexy and Turbo 10 was quite sceptical. But I have to admit, these two do have the wow factor AND it appears the technology kudos to create an impact.

Trexy uses the trails created by other (anonymous) searchers on other search engines and stores them for access by new searchers. To use the trails of others or blaze your own trail, you do need to download the Trexy Trailbar, but the concept is pretty interesting. The British Computer Society thought so too - Trexy won a BCS IT Professional award for "technical novelty and inventiveness" this week.

Turbo 10 is probably the more exciting of the two projects. It claims to be the first search engine in the world to uncover information in the "Invisible Web" which is estimated to be 500 times greater than the information currently indexed by crawler-based engines such as Google and Yahoo. Utilising connections to over 800 search engines, Turbo10 enables users to directly search these databases in real-time and search up to 10 Deep Net engines simultaneously. I've given Turbo 10 a whirl and the results are impressive!

Not bad for a couple of Aussie siblings living in London. Congratulations to brother and sister team Megan and Nigel. I hope I send more eyeballs your way.

Turbo10 Cluster Turns 50!

Turbo10.com, has experienced a large increase in load recently. The Turbo10 search network is now receiving more than 1 billion searches per month. To service this load we have had to increase the size of the cluster to 50 nodes.

We've learnt lots of hard lessons about web scalability in the past and maybe one day Trexy will need 50 nodes too.

Microsoft Award for Innovation Through Technology - Winner!

Last night, Nigel and I attended the British Chamber of Commerce awards dinner in Guildford.

We won the Microsoft Award for Innovation Through Technology for the South East Region.


We now go through to the final round and compete in the national level.

Partner With Us: Software Licensing

Turbo10 has licensed its software to a number of organisations such as
Lund University, Sweden and BTLooksmart, London.

We non-exclusively license the following software:

• Deep Net Adapter System
• Deep Net Adapter Probing System
• My Collections System
• Metasearch Engine
• Advertiser Bid Management System
• Content Management System
• Credit Card Processing System
• XML Feed Aggregator
• Client-side Relevance Ranking and Topic Clustering

Email us at partner@turbo10.com to discuss licensing our technology.

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