Jeska Linden, the community manager at Linden Lab, the company that publishes Second Life said in a discussion (link to recording removed as per InformationWeeks wishes) today at an InformationWeek meeting, that the development team were playing around with Google Search Appliance. Google's enteprise hardware/software search solution would allow residents to search the Metaverse far more effectively. In theory, it would knock home grown efforts like the upcoming revamp of Sheep Search, Meta Mart and SL Browser right out of the game.
The upside would be a vastly improved Search experience. So let's hope it works out...
Jeska said that the results from searches using the new system would be rendered in flat HTML, which would also be usability improvement and perhaps one step closer to the fabled "html on a prim" ideal of bringing markup inworld.
