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There is more news on the browser front than the release of Google’s Chrome and Microsoft giving a complete makeover to its dominant Internet Explorer with Version 8 Beta 2.

Opera Software is leading a first-of-its-kind project to create a search engine that tracks how Web pages are structured on the Web. This engine will help browser makers and standard bodies work towards a more standards-driven and compatible Web.

Opera today announced results from its MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) search engine, a brainchild of Opera engineers that indexes the markup, style, scripting and the technology used while creating Web pages.

From the beginning, Opera is known as an innovative company and MAMA is proof of its understanding of the Web, claimed the company.

The MAMA search engine scours 3.5 million Web pages, and the resulting data can answer questions such as “can I get a sampling of Web pages that have more than 100 hyperlinks?” or “what does an average Web page look like?”– a dream come true for Web developers. Read the rest of this entry »