Here is more on NASA’s goals for this project:

The goal is to not just build “a really great search engine for bad things on the hidden Internet,” JPL’s principal investigator on Memex, Chris Mattmann, told Fusion. When NASA spacecrafts send information to Earth, it’s in a file format that Google isn’t very good at understanding. “[Those files] get in the second class of the web, that normally we call the Deep Dark Web…if you go to Google, you’re probably 10-30 clicks away from the science data—the actual information.”

NASA data is dumped in this murky, unreachable (but not inaccessible) part of the web because the data sets make sense to humans but not to the web crawlers that index the Internet. With Memex, Mattmann said, Web surfers will be “just one to four clicks away from the science data.”

I’d be interested to compare both search engines.  We hope you like the video and are looking forward to seeing more from this ambitious project.

thanks to fusion.net for the great info

thanks to Billie Ward for the picture