<s>
Munax	B-Application
was	O
a	O
Swedish	O
company	O
that	O
developed	O
a	O
Large	O
Hyper-Parallel	O
Execution	O
(	O
LHPE	O
)	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
system	O
Munax	B-Application
XE	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Munax	B-Application
XE	O
,	O
is	O
an	O
all-content	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
and	O
powered	O
nationwide	O
and	O
worldwide	O
public	O
search	B-Application
engines	I-Application
with	O
page	O
,	O
document	O
,	O
audio	O
,	O
video	O
,	O
images	O
,	O
software	O
,	O
and	O
email	O
search	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
customers	O
included	O
vertical	B-Application
search	I-Application
engines	I-Application
and	O
mobile	O
operators	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
multimedia	O
,	O
Munax	B-Application
also	O
developed	O
functionality	O
that	O
let	O
the	O
visitors	O
pre-listen	O
to	O
audio	O
and	O
preview	O
videos	O
,	O
making	O
it	O
easier	O
for	O
the	O
visitor	O
to	O
decide	O
what	O
song	O
or	O
video	O
he	O
is	O
looking	O
for	O
before	O
playing	O
it	O
,	O
or	O
visiting	O
the	O
site	O
hosting	O
it	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
visitor	O
could	O
also	O
decide	O
to	O
transcode	B-Device
any	O
multimedia	O
file	O
to	O
make	O
it	O
moveable	O
to	O
the	O
mobile	O
phone	O
or	O
any	O
type	O
of	O
multimedia	O
player	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
working	O
as	O
a	O
consultant	O
for	O
larger	O
high	O
tech	O
companies	O
,	O
Jan-Olof	O
Granlund	O
spent	O
his	O
free	O
time	O
working	O
on	O
a	O
specification	O
for	O
a	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
technology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
specification	O
was	O
ready	O
in	O
2004	O
and	O
the	O
first	O
beta	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
system	O
was	O
implemented	O
in	O
2005	O
and	O
a	O
license	O
was	O
sold	O
to	O
a	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
company	O
on	O
Iceland	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2007	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
Munax	B-Application
AB	O
was	O
founded	O
and	O
Granlund	O
left	O
his	O
consultant	O
business	O
to	O
work	O
full-time	O
in	O
the	O
new	O
company	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Munax	B-Application
had	O
shareholders	O
from	O
Sweden	O
,	O
Iceland	O
,	O
the	O
United	O
States	O
,	O
and	O
China	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
major	O
investor	O
in	O
Munax	B-Application
was	O
:sv:Affärsstrategerna	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
technology	O
of	O
the	O
Munax	B-Application
company	O
was	O
later	O
sold	O
and	O
the	O
company	O
was	O
closed	O
down	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
the	O
system	O
level	O
,	O
Munax	B-Application
can	O
be	O
installed	O
on	O
a	O
single	O
computer	O
or	O
an	O
arbitrary	O
number	O
of	O
computers	O
on	O
a	O
local	O
area	O
network	O
,	O
or	O
over	O
computers	O
on	O
the	O
internet	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
way	O
,	O
Munax	B-Application
can	O
be	O
scaled	O
and	O
distributed	O
freely	O
and	O
each	O
machine	O
's	O
execution	O
power	O
can	O
be	O
utilized	O
to	O
its	O
maximum	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
the	O
indexing	O
level	O
,	O
Munax	B-Application
full-indexes	O
a	O
range	O
of	O
document	O
types	O
,	O
including	O
:	O
htm	O
html	O
shtm	O
shtml	O
jhtm	O
asp	O
php	O
php3	O
pdf	O
ps	O
doc	O
xls	O
ppt	O
rtf	O
wp	O
wp5	O
wp6	O
wpd	O
txt	O
c	O
cpp	O
h	O
.	O
When	O
it	O
comes	O
to	O
link-indexing	O
in	O
Munax	B-Application
,	O
this	O
is	O
more	O
complex	O
than	O
just	O
indexing	O
the	O
anchor	O
text	O
and	O
the	O
URL	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Amongst	O
other	O
things	O
,	O
Munax	B-Application
relates	O
each	O
link	O
to	O
the	O
other	O
links	O
on	O
the	O
page	O
and	O
to	O
the	O
text	O
of	O
the	O
page	O
itself	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Munax	B-Application
supports	O
the	O
link-indexing	O
of	O
gif	O
,	O
jpg	O
,	O
tga	O
,	O
bmp	O
,	O
iff	O
,	O
img	O
,	O
jif	O
,	O
mac	O
,	O
msp	O
,	O
pcx	O
,	O
pic	O
,	O
tif	O
,	O
ico	O
,	O
jpe	O
,	O
mp3	O
,	O
wav	O
,	O
ram	O
,	O
snd	O
,	O
mp4	O
,	O
aif	O
,	O
mid	O
,	O
vqf	O
,	O
la1	O
,	O
lav	O
,	O
mp2	O
,	O
avi	O
,	O
mpg	O
,	O
mpeg	O
,	O
rm	O
,	O
qt	O
,	O
asx	O
,	O
mov	O
,	O
fli	O
,	O
flc	O
,	O
eps	O
,	O
wri	O
,	O
asc	O
,	O
fmk	O
,	O
for	O
,	O
zip	O
,	O
gzip	O
,	O
tar	O
,	O
arc	O
,	O
lzh	O
,	O
sit	O
,	O
rar	O
,	O
arj	O
,	O
dd	O
,	O
tgz	O
,	O
lha	O
,	O
exe	O
,	O
hqx	O
,	O
dll	O
,	O
vbs	O
,	O
vxd	O
,	O
bat	O
,	O
cmd	O
,	O
class	O
,	O
jar	O
,	O
java	O
,	O
jav	O
and	O
email	O
addresses	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Munax	B-Application
knows	O
what	O
type	O
of	O
files	O
these	O
are	O
and	O
groups	O
them	O
accordingly	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Munax	B-Application
also	O
allows	O
for	O
structured	O
indexing	O
,	O
i.e.	O
</s>
<s>
the	O
indexing	O
of	O
XML	B-Protocol
files	O
and	O
automatically	O
creates	O
each	O
xml	B-Protocol
tag	O
as	O
an	O
individual	O
search	O
item	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
the	O
search	O
level	O
,	O
several	O
independent	O
ranking	O
algorithms	O
processes	O
the	O
inverted	B-Algorithm
index	I-Algorithm
together	O
with	O
hundreds	O
of	O
search	O
parameters	O
to	O
produce	O
the	O
final	O
ranking	O
for	O
each	O
document	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
the	O
visitor	O
,	O
Munax	B-Application
provided	O
a	O
long	O
range	O
of	O
search	B-Application
features	I-Application
,	O
including	O
the	O
search	O
for	O
pages	O
,	O
documents	O
,	O
audio	O
,	O
video	O
,	O
images	O
,	O
compressed	O
files	O
,	O
torrents	O
,	O
software	O
and	O
email	O
addresses	O
,	O
or	O
to	O
get	O
all	O
type	O
of	O
results	O
on	O
the	O
same	O
page	O
(	O
composite	O
search	O
,	O
supersearch	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Munax	B-Application
started	O
the	O
construction	O
of	O
the	O
PlayAudioVideo	B-Application
multimedia	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
in	O
July	O
2007	O
and	O
opened	O
it	O
for	O
beta	O
testers	O
in	O
December	O
the	O
same	O
year	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PlayAudioVideo	B-Application
,	O
beta	O
1	O
,	O
was	O
opened	O
for	O
the	O
public	O
in	O
February	O
2008	O
and	O
beta	O
2	O
opened	O
in	O
June	O
2008	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
PlayAudioVideo	B-Application
was	O
the	O
first	O
true	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
for	O
multimedia	O
,	O
i.e.	O
,	O
providing	O
search	O
on	O
the	O
web	O
for	O
images	O
,	O
video	O
and	O
audio/music	O
in	O
the	O
same	O
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Through	O
Munax	B-Application
composite	O
search	O
,	O
the	O
visitor	O
gets	O
the	O
results	O
for	O
all	O
multimedia	O
types	O
on	O
the	O
same	O
result	O
page	O
,	O
or	O
he	O
could	O
decide	O
to	O
search	O
for	O
each	O
individual	O
type	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Munax	B-Application
acknowledged	O
the	O
demand	O
from	O
the	O
mobile	O
operators	O
to	O
provide	O
their	O
customers	O
with	O
search	O
beyond	O
the	O
traditional	O
text	O
search	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Munax	B-Application
provided	O
the	O
users	O
with	O
the	O
search	O
and	O
play	O
of	O
songs	O
and	O
videos	O
regardless	O
of	O
the	O
type	O
of	O
device	O
being	O
used	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
metasearch	B-Application
engines	I-Application
,	O
Munax	B-Application
provided	O
any	O
type	O
of	O
search	O
,	O
including	O
traditional	O
text	O
search	O
(	O
pages/documents	O
)	O
and	O
multimedia	O
search	O
,	O
to	O
be	O
presented	O
on	O
their	O
result	O
pages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Munax	B-Application
provided	O
a	O
range	O
of	O
search	O
products	O
to	O
be	O
installed	O
on	O
a	O
corporation	O
's	O
computers	O
,	O
to	O
index	O
their	O
local	O
area	O
network	O
,	O
their	O
website	O
and/or	O
sites	O
on	O
the	O
web	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Munax	B-Application
could	O
be	O
tailored	O
individually	O
to	O
suit	O
the	O
needs	O
for	O
each	O
corporation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Munax	B-Application
also	O
provided	O
outsourced	O
search	O
—	O
i.e.	O
,	O
any	O
corporation	O
could	O
have	O
their	O
website	O
indexed	O
and	O
searchable	B-Application
from	O
the	O
Munax	B-Application
search	B-Application
engine	I-Application
,	O
but	O
presented	O
as	O
if	O
the	O
search	B-Application
results	I-Application
came	O
from	O
the	O
corporation	O
itself	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MUNAX	B-Application
,	O
from	O
Munin	O
and	O
Corax	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Munin	O
is	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
two	O
ravens	O
of	O
Odin	B-Application
,	O
the	O
god	O
of	O
wisdom	O
in	O
the	O
Nordic	O
Viking	O
mythology	O
(	O
Viking	O
ages	O
700	O
–	O
1100	O
AD	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
ravens	O
fly	O
over	O
the	O
earth	O
and	O
remember	O
everything	O
;	O
when	O
the	O
ravens	O
come	O
back	O
,	O
they	O
tell	O
Odin	B-Application
what	O
they	O
have	O
seen	O
—	O
similar	O
to	O
the	O
Munax	B-Application
ravens	O
,	O
or	O
crawlers	O
,	O
which	O
inform	O
the	O
Munax	B-Application
database	O
of	O
what	O
's	O
on	O
the	O
web	O
.	O
</s>
