Search the Metaverse

Search the Metaverse. Find what you're looking for. Oh and if you want to get there faster, use Wet Ikon's Roam.

Wet Ikon's Roam Search is now open for public BETA testing at http://roam.wetikon.net. Search for places and find your way to them. Find that store that had your favorite wig on sale. Locate your friends home. Research before you buy a new skin. Go on a shopping spree for new clothing. Whatever you're looking for, find the place that has it through Roam Search.

With over 2,500 parcels indexed and advanced relevancy sorting algorithms Roam Search will help you discover and explore the ever expanding Metaverse faster and easier than ever before.

Can't find what you're looking for? Try again soon, we are working quickly to update our index. Want to have your parcel added to our database quicker? Submit your location below.

Don't like something? Have a great new feature you'd like to see implemented? Give us your feedback below! Let's search the Metaverse together!

Bookmarking this for future reference.

Update - Roam Search now indexes over 4,000 places with more being added by the minute. Remember to post your parcel location below if you would like it included sooner.

That is a fair analogy. Roam is to the Metaverse what Google and Yahoo are to the Web. Google and Yahoo index web pages. Roam indexes virtual reality. Google and Yahoo provide hyperlinks to web pages. Roam provides three dimensional spatial coordinates to places and objects in cyberspace. It is a metaversal volumetric search engine.

I had a feeling you'd provide a brilliant answer!

This, so far, is very nice for being able to check "on" things when one is not actually inworld. JUST SEARCH. The interface is clean and simple, of course... I'm looking forward to giving it more of a workout and gaining experience with using it. Infact, the immediate feeling I get is it's quicker and more efficient to look up certain data with this than SL's own Find tools. Nice to have secondlife:// links to copy and paste to my blog too, if needed... I can see that's an opportunity.

I've got my eye on those Snapshot links.

There are several differences between the Find Places dialog in Second Life and Roam.

* Find Places only returns results of places that pay L$30/weekly to be listed. Unfortunately this eliminates a lot of potential results. Especially non-commercial ones. Roam indexes everything at no cost.

* Find Places bases relevancy only on dwell and returns results in this order. Roam uses a complex algorithm based on keyword relevancy, dwell, parcel size, age, and more to provide you with the most relevant results possible for what you are searching for.

* Find Places returns a maximum of 100 results. Roam returns all relevant results.

* Find Places is accessible only within the client. Roam is accessible from any browser as well as potentially within the client when HTML support is added. Roam can also be accessed from in world devices using email and xml-rpc.

* Find Places results list only names. Roam lists the names, descriptions, area, and age while highlighting relevant sections to educate you as to why a result was returned.

* Find Places only indexes places. Roam currently indexes places but will soon index much more including objects, avatars, land ownership, and more.

We've almost got an infomercial going on here! But a GOOD one.

Pretty sweet... I've long thought we needed something like this. I experimented with something similar (yahoo indexed by people style) with Slindex.com but was really bummed to find out about the delays to in-world Mozilla and lost the burning desire to innovate, advertise and upkeep it.

"Find" has long been a pet peeve of mine and this looks like a good solution. Now only if you merged Slindex and ROAM search and not only showed the locations but allowed people to upload photos of what they are selling in those places, maybe I could actually find the things I"m trying to buy.

Nice work.... looking forward to see what the future holds for ROAM Search (tagging?, web services?)

Rathe, Wet Ikon is a team consisting of yourself and Francis Chung, correct?

While obviously I'm livid at you guys for stealing my SLWebSearch thunder (see the post currently below this one), this is really cool and a powerful step in the right direction for what I'd ultimately like to see in SL Search. Great work.

Your websearch rocks too... imagine this...

You see a cool Snapzilla pic titled "WetIkon strikes again". You head over to SLWebSearch to find out what the device is and what people are saying about it. You then go to ROAM Search to find out where you can find it, in world. Then you could have a one click method of heading over to SL Boutique to see prices and pictures of everything the WetIkon store sells. This is great for getting info about the happenings of the grid while you can't log in (read: at work), but even better once we get Mozilla integration and we can loose that stinking "Find" button and replace it with something better!



Now I agree this is a lot of clicking and searching around, but with web services, tagging and a little bit of integration this can all be done from a single mashup! Maybe we can even get Hammy to use the same tagging system in New World Notes.

Yep.

Sorry Hank . I actually didn't see your thread until after I posted. But SLWebSearch is very cool! I have been using Google to keep track of SL related content. SLWebSearch makes it much easier and more consolidated without all the non-SL stuff. That will make my life much easier!

Bookmarked you for future reference!

Our index has now grown to over 6,000 places. If you couldn't find what you were looking for before, try now! More to come!

After a long hard first day of Roam Search we are happy to announce we have surpassed the 10,000 places index milestone! With more than 43,859,000 square meters of virtual space indexed you are now empowered to find much more of what you're looking for. Get better results with more relevancy. Find those rare needles in the digital haystack. And discover the Metaverse.

We will continue to update our index as time goes on. If you would like to see a place that is missing from our index added sooner, please contact me directly.

Thank you for all the positive feedback during our first day, and let the searching begin!


PS. Some fun queries below.


- Want to see the world from a new perspective?
- Redecorating that fancy new apartment you just rented?
- Feeling ... lucky?
- You thought the Romans had an empire?
- Found that REALLY special someone?
- Oh no! Here it comes again.


Roam Search

I understand you don't want to give it away... but how does it index?

Does it look at say names of prims? Would prim name and descriptions suddenly be the new meta tags?

i think the roam is very cool though i need to learn how to use it :0

If you need any help with the ROAM transporter inworld, just let me know.

love the search engine, great work!

Continuing on our expansion we are happy to announce the expanded index of over 12,000 places now!

More significantly is the addition of boolean search support now! You can now quote strings to search for phrases, use + and - to require or restrict certain keywords, and group boolean logic using parantheses.

A good example of when quotes are useful is when searching for someones name. For example "Francis Chung" vs Francis Chung. The earlier would return only results related to Francis Chung, where the latter would return results matching Francis OR Chung.

Enjoy!

Added land owner matching. Now searching will also match your keywords against the land owners name or group if it is deeded to a group.

For example see all the land Hiro Pendragon owns for SLCC.

Sim names work too! For example see all the places in Chartreuse.

Wondering what's at a certain location? Have the coordinates but not the name? Now you can search by location too! It's simple, just enter the sim name followed by coordinates in parantheses. For example Chartreuse (226, 108) will show you what is located in Chartreuse at 226, 108.

Awesome job on ROAM. Be nice to add/edit locations on the website.