An important announcement regarding a search engine was made on Wednesday by Opera Software. Apparently, the Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA) developed by Opera is a kind of a search engine that enables the users to not only search structure of a Web page but also it’s content. 

MAMA which is expected to be launched by the end of this year, will let the developers to ask questions like, “How many sites use CSS?” or “Can I get a sampling of Web pages that have more than 100 hyperlinks?”

New York/Sunnyvale - After a focussed cost-saving programme, US chip maker AMD was advancing toward the profit zone after reducing its losses in the third quarter to a surprising 69 million dollars, the company said after markets closed Thursday.

AMD had 396 million dollars in losses in the same period last year.

Revenues climbed by 14 per cent to 1.78 billion dollars, giving it another leg up against its much larger rival, industry leader Intel.

San Francisco - Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc on Thursday said its third-quarter profits jumped 26 per cent, as more people used Web search advertisements to increase sales amid the continuing economic downturn.

Google's net income rose to 1.35 billion dollars from 1.07 billion dollars, according to a company statement. Its revenue grew 31 percent to 5.54 billion dollars, up from 4.23 billion dollars a year earlier.

London, Oct 16 : NASA scientists have found the key to keep harmful moon dust at bay— a little sunshine.

Astronauts landing on the moon have to tackle with lunar dust, which is easily disturbed and highly abrasive, reports New Scientist.

The dust cannot only damage equipment, but could also prove dangerous to astronauts'' lungs, if it gets into inhabited areas.

Thus, study leader Paul Hintze of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, has found that a 1-metre-wide lens that focuses sunlight can melt and fuse the dust.

The finding could protect a future moon base from the fine powder on the lunar surface.

Washington, Oct 16: A team of researchers in Canada have made a bold stride in the struggle to detect dark matter, by documenting the discovery of a significant difference between the acoustic signals induced by neutrons and alpha particles in a detector based on superheated liquids.

Since neutron induced signals are very similar to dark matter induced signals, this new discovery, by the PICASSO collaboration, could lead to improved background suppression in dark matter searches with this type of detector.

So far, alpha particles have been an obstacle to the detection of dark matter''s weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) in PICASSO.

London, October 16 : The Queen’s image has featured on the homepage logo of Internet search engine ‘Google’ to mark her visit to the organisation’s London office.

The ‘Google doodle’ has added the feature to its existing collection of logos, which are changed periodically to mark national holidays or anniversaries of major events.

The exclusive logo fits in a profile of Her Majesty and a crown, reports the Independent.