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?”

It was informed through a statement issued by M. Grimsby, vice president of quality assurance at Opera Software, “The Web is fragmented, complex, and always evolving. MAMA's vast database provides us with detailed information about how Web technologies are used. This is key in our efforts to test and ensure high-quality compatibility, stability and performance of our products, and we want to share it with our peers, so they can benefit from it, too.”

Other than answering general questions such as how many sites are mobile-ready, MAMA would also be able to provide answers to technical questions like “What is the 18th most popular element?”

MAMA Database presently has 100 million total records in 22 tables and 21GB of data representing the analysis of just over 3.5 million URLs. From the past four years, MAMA has been in work. 

On Wednesday Opera's Brian Wilson informed through a note on the company’s website, “When the seeds of this project were sown in early 2004, there was little in the way of effective data about the state of the Web. I talked with a variety of my co-workers at Opera regarding what they wanted to know about the Web [and] almost every person involved with creating Opera had different questions about 'what is out there' on the Web; thus began the genesis of MAMA.”