London Metasearch Engine first to connect to over 1000 online engines.

London based search engine, Turbo10 (http://turbo10.com) unveiled technology connecting to over 1000 topic-specific engines on the Internet at The Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (http://www2003.org) in Budapest last week.

Turbo10 has launched the first fully automated system that creates and maintains connections to online databases en masse.

“Connecting to 1000 engines is just the tip of the iceberg. By creating an automated system we can connect to thousands more,” Nigel Hamilton Turbo10’s CEO said.

The current list of over 1000 engines can be viewed here.

The list of engines is updated every five minutes as more engines are added. A live counter of engines can be viewed on Turbo10’s homepage.

This new technology was officially launched at the WWW 2003 conference in a technical paper titled: The Mechanics of a Deep Net Metasearch Engine. The paper can be viewed here.

Photos from the WWW 2003 conference can be viewed below:

From right: Megan Hamilton (Turbo10), Nigel Hamilton (Turbo10), Steve Lawrence (Google)

Nigel Hamilton CEO Turbo10 in front of poster.

About Turbo10 Search Engine

Turbo10 searches the Deep Net – a vast array of specialist databases that range from business associations, universities, libraries, and government departments.

These specialist search engines are inaccessible to traditional crawler-based engines such as Altavista.com and google.com who can only index static pages.

Turbo10 is the first commercial metasearch engine to connect to hundreds of these specialised engines en masse, broadening the depth and range of search results for the online searcher.