Hints Of A New Second Life Search
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 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.
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Do I remember this wrong? Didn't LL say at one point, in the wake of the CopyBot scandal, that they would add much more detailed metadata to items within SL? The main reason was to make attribution more accurate, so copies would be difficult to pass off as original work but it was also said that this would allow a much more comprehensive search system.
I think there was even mention of a designer being able to search for their own products and getting a list of where they were inworld and who owned them...altho' I doubt LL would ever go live with that kind of a privacy invasion...
Maybe they're getting ready to implement these additional metatags?
Metatags...
I'm trying to think of how meta tags could be implemented without causing some grid issues under load... I'm not having much luck in that regard. However, the 'meta tags' such as who bought what already do exist (just inspect an object), so searching on that should be as simple as some more advanced SQL queries.