An Aussie outfit is set to release a search engine which it claims is far better than Google. Rob Gabriel of MyLiveSearch uses an engine which is live rather than building a vast index of web pages, via automated "spiders" that crawl through billions of web pages.

Gabriel, 35, says his search engine gives better, more relevant results than the search king because it is a truly "live" search. He added the results come back in seconds, and are almost always richer, more detailed and more useful than a standard, index-based search. His product can also search the so-called "invisible web" of dynamically-generated web pages that search engines have trouble indexing.

"This has the potential to change the way people search the internet," Gabriel said. "Google can't search every page every day (to build its index). The web is so dynamic and changes so often - MyLiveSearch turns your own computer into a 'super-spider' to search it in real time. This technology could be snapped onto any of the major search engines and improve them."

Google decline to comment on MyLiveSearch, except in general terms. "We're really keen to support Australian developers and IT entrepreneurs," spokesman Rob Shilkin said. "Google Maps was a small Aussie start-up. And Google itself started as two guys in a garage."