Linden Lab announces new search

Well, we’ve been eagerly awaiting this announcement and it finally came out: Linden Lab is updating their search engine.  Check out their blog for information and screenshots on the new functionality. Some highlights:

• What is searched? Land parcels, Residents profile, Groups, Second Life wiki articles, Events, and some individual Objects present on public parcels are all included in the search results.
• How is relevance determined? How well the page matches the query, how close the multiple words are together, and how many inbound links there are to the page. Inbound links are created by references in top picks, classifieds, landmarks, parcels and groups.
• Right now this is just going into their “release candidate” client.