- Trexy
Trexy is an
Internet metasearch engine established in early2006 . It allows users to record and share "search trails" of their activity onsearch engine s. The trails themselves are searchable, allowing users to save time when searching by examining the pages found by other users. The intention is also to allow easier searching of the "deep web ".The site is used by installing a
toolbar in one'sweb browser which records the user's activity on search sites that Trexy is aware of. In mid-2006 this numbered in excess of 3,000 search engines.The technology was inspired by
Vannevar Bush 's1945 paperAs We May Think , in which he described his idea of a machine called aMemex : a Memex would augment one's memory and searching powers by helping to create and share "trails of association" between things in the "common record". The name "Trexy" is derived from "TRails" and "memEX".Awards
In July 2006 the
British Computer Society announced Trexy as one of the medallists in the Services section of their IT Professional Awards. [http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.6062]External links
* [http://trexy.com/ Trexy]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMp6pnqaQ5I Video interview with Trexy founders] at the WWW2006 conference.
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