I just listened to a pod-cast on National Radio NZ about a cutting edge search engine designed in N.Z. It is a radically different approach to the concept of search engines.
Basically you design your own search bot and continue to feed it the information you want from the web. The more you work together, the more it understands exactly what you want. The bot continually trawls the web delivering a report, daily, weekly or monthly on its results. The more information you feed it and making sure you answer its questions the better the info. In the end it saves a huge amount of time sifting for info.
My bot is currently trawling for info on Simple Church / house church / emergent in the South Pacific and delivering a report every 24 hours.
It's experimental so it is glitchy. Over 35000 spy bots have been designed already. For more info go to http://www.searchbots.net
