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NetBrilliant's outperformance of traditional methods of web page and MP3 search can be easily quantified. We present here a short summary of results from tests performed on the current internal beta version of NetBrilliant. You can expect the performance of the final release version to be better than shown.
The above results were generated using a standard corpus of web queries; performace is measured in results per second. NetBrilliant's performance is the rightmost, pictured with the NetBrilliant icon above. As shown, NetBrilliant produces the fastest times (the greatest number of results per second) for this corpus. The other engines, from left to right, are InfoSeek, AltaVista, HotBot, DirectHit, Lycos, and Yahoo.
This graph shows the speed performance of NetBrilliant (right-most) as compared to MP3 search engines Napster, Lycos and MP3Cache (left to right). NetBrilliant outperforms all three by two orders of magnitude; NetBrilliant is roughly 176 times faster than Napster for queries returning many results.
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NetBrilliant indexes more MP3 files than existing engines, as shown above. The engines, from left to right, are Lycos, MP3Cache, Napster and NetBrilliant. NetBrilliant indexes roughly 30% more songs than Napster, and almost 4 times more songs than the web-based engines.
Although the raw number of songs returned for queries is very important, arguably more important is how many of those links actually work. Above is a graph of the percentage of links that are valid for a set of song queries. NetBrilliant (right-most) and Napster (second from right) compete for the top, with NetBrilliant slightly edging out (97% to 98%). The web-based engines trail far behind. One sees that nearly all of NetBrilliant's results are valid; 98% in our testing.
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