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In Second Life's Rosedale in SF, Philip Rosedale apparently said that Second Life will have a new search soon:

...Second Life will "soon" launch an internal search mechanism, Rosedale says -- but won't say when. Now, you can't search for much of anything on SL -- can't look for people, events, nothing. That will change....

Sounds like something I hinted at (without any insight) when I asked when 'When Will Linden Lab Make SLBrowser Obsolete?'... maybe the new search will be based on the data SLBrowser cultivates with bots. That would be sensible, since it all should be in SQL queries instead of having to reverse engineer the entire grid with a bot to do the same... but one never knows. If they did learn something from SLBrowser, I hope that the developers of SLBrowser got something in return.

Putting energy into something just to see [w:Linden Lab] arbitrarily make that effort worthless would be annoying, to say the least. But then, maybe they're just fixing it so it doesn't break whenever a server hamster goes on strike. Who knows?

I wonder what this new 'search' will be like. A better internal search would certainly make business and non-business use of Second Life easier.