MeraLabs presents a new search facility aimed at the market of specialized search engines intended for the so-called vertical or niche search.

The search domain for the new system is the global Internet. Suggested search engine is designed for finding live video and audio streams and not static texts and graphics.

Rather than follow the beaten track of creating another search tool that finds stored multimedia files, we have focused on developing a technology that allows the search engine to find sources of audio and video streams commonly referred to as live broadcasting (webcasting) stations that include professional and amateur TV channels and even web cameras transmitting live audio and/or video content over the Internet.

Reviewers and analysts forecast a rapid growth of streaming media traffic, the amount of which across the global Internet has been steadily doubling every two years since 2001.

At present, a visit to a specialized web portal (such as Current TV, Liveroom.tv, Cobrina.tv etc.) is the only way of finding webcasting sources on the Internet.

A webcasting source search is often hampered by the irrelevant text content due to which the sought-for source of streaming media is almost always located at the end of the list returned by the search.

The streaming media search engine suggested by MeraLabs employs a unique search technology that dramatically enhances the effectiveness of search.