TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have developed new search engine called Memex claimed to be able to do deep search to reveal ‘Dark Web’. The search engine is to be used as tools to catch human and drug trafficking.
Memex stands for ‘Memory’ and ‘Index’. The site have been developed since the past six months by DARPA.
"We're envisioning a new paradigm for search that would tailor indexed content, search results and interface tools to individual users and specific subject areas, and not the other way around," said Chris White, program manager at DARPA as quoted by Tech Times.
DARPA claims that Memex gathers deeper information from the internet up to 90 to 95 percent while Google can only display 10 percent of the whole internet or the ‘surface web’.
When a user is clicking an advertisement on the Internet that is suspected to be a sex trade website, Memex would track down the details including name and location where the advertisement originate. It also works the same way when human trafficking happen through ‘chat’ and job ads.
A lawyer from Manhattan Cyrus R. Vance has been using the search engine for his office activity in tracking down human trafficking.
DARPA convinced people that Memex would not reveal public information of a site such as server and IP address. Development of the site is said to take three years.
TECHTIMES | MARTHA WARTA SILABAN
