Come to MAMA!

October 15, 2008 · by olli

Oki everyone now it's time for "yo mama jokes".. or not really

Some of you are interested in what kind of tools we use. Brian has made a blogpost about an internal search tool. We use it to find information and sites where we can test Web technologies. In short, MAMA is a miner, a database, an analyzer, and a search engine. It indexes not the content of a Web page as "traditional" search engines, but everything else (markup, scripting, etc.).

Check out our MAMA:

http://my.opera.com/operaqa/blog/2008/10/15/mama-what-is-the-web-made-of

Readers' comments

Comments left by My Opera members under the original post: the first 31, as archived.

Tamil15. October 2008, 15:05:00
In Tamil, Mama = Uncle
lamarca15. October 2008, 15:08:25
nice one.
mickael915. October 2008, 15:14:17
Your mum is so fat that she doesn't fit in a malloc()
Love this one
EricJH15. October 2008, 15:38:04
Interesting tool to learn about websites and help to prioritise bug squashing.
AhmedGhanem15. October 2008, 16:20:57
Well, i think all Opera's users are special ( read : geeks ), anyway nice tool , I'll kick it up running !
Chas415. October 2008, 16:22:48
So thats how you do the testing at Opera

if MAMA is a miner then what is DADA?
EricJH15. October 2008, 16:33:01
Originally posted by Chas4:
So thats how you do the testing at Opera
Here's some more stuff from the QA folks: http://my.opera.com/operaqa/blog/ .
kamalesh15. October 2008, 16:52:02
Wow, very cool tool. What a great way to optimize web development, in general, and find bottlenecks for specific corner cases. IBM-type developement companies (and everyone else) will be able to address web app issues in ways that weren't possible before.

(Nice gift to Google, btw -- since they want 99% of everything in the cloud and accessed via a browser. Did they say "thank you" yet??)
Salsero_Nash15. October 2008, 17:04:08
Opera Team is the best, without any doubt...
VarunM15. October 2008, 17:08:17
Depending where you live in India DADA would be big brother.But usually its the grandfather.
White_Eagle15. October 2008, 19:34:14
Well yo mama is so fat that I run around her twice and got lost! :haha:
Serpher15. October 2008, 20:38:04
In Polish "MAMA" means "mother" or "mom" ;]
Deass15. October 2008, 21:10:07
In spanish, mama also means mom
andresruiz15. October 2008, 21:44:36
Sorry, maybe it's no place for this since this post is about a kind of search engine...not about Opera itself but.
I was (as always) promoting Opera, and I tried to download Opera from "http://my.opera.com/chooseopera/blog/" and when I click on the dropdown menu [opera] then [Opera for PC/Mac]... Opera sends me to "http://my.opera.com/community/opera/" so I click on the download button and it gives me the "Opera installer_in_05.exe" file which is an old version (9.52 installer)...I had to go to www.opera.com to download the latest 9.6.
Please solve it in order to prevent new people download the older 9.52 version of Opera
Sorry, I know is off-topic but I'm sure is important.
danielcs15. October 2008, 22:05:34
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
olli15. October 2008, 23:14:02
andresruiz: Thx forwarded
musiccow16. October 2008, 08:52:57
That's what exactly we Chinese pronounce when we call our mother.
White Lynx16. October 2008, 11:00:01
In Tamil, Mama = Uncle

And in Georgian it means father.
Cyro16. October 2008, 12:02:28
In Portuguese, Mama = Breast
thobi16. October 2008, 14:40:02
Die MAMA von Opera analysiert das Web (German: Opera's mum is analysing the web ) ->
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Die-MAMA-von-Opera-analysiert-das-Web--/meldung/117495

so in german MAMA = mother like in polish
Jada000716. October 2008, 15:30:16
I like it.

Any idea if the code is available for this project? I could not find any indication of that there.
mnmus16. October 2008, 15:40:20
Chas4: "if MAMA is a miner then what is DADA?"

DADA is a hep cat.
fearphage16. October 2008, 16:21:02
Originally posted by Olli:
Oki everyone now it's time for "yo mama jokes"
As you wish...

Yo mama so fat that when she hauls ass, she has to make two trips.

Yo mama so old that when she was in school, there was no history class.

Yo mama so black that she leaves fingerprints on charcoal.

Yo mama so nasty that I called her on the phone and she gave me an ear infection.

Yo mama so ugly that when she looks out the window, she gets arrested for mooning.

Your mama so old that she was in Jesus's yearbook.
ottouk16. October 2008, 20:43:04
Very interesting! Opera continues to innovate
LZ2SDC17. October 2008, 08:06:46

For MAMA and All Mothers!
It is and will be a great tools!
Zake17. October 2008, 17:25:35
Will there be data about doctype usage available in the future? I hope you can publish something like that.

This would be very useful information given the high number of websites in your index. To know where the web stands mode-wise or to see how far we are on our road to the one-mode-enviroment everyone aims for.

Ah...

I see there is some short info about that. But really interesting data like which doctypes are used are missing. For Example, how often do you encounter IBM's XHTML doctype. The sam for HoTMetaL doctypes (oh, ye ancient relics..).
iliiad19. October 2008, 03:41:11
After reading through the article, I'm not too sure what MAMA will be? It seems MAMA is a search engine developed and used internally by Opera? Will there be a version available to the public? So web developers/users outside of Opera can use it for themselves?
Junyor20. October 2008, 19:01:14
Off-topic comments are being deleted.
max03221. October 2008, 08:43:43
off-topic comment removed
blooberry21. October 2008, 15:36:44
Zake said:
> But really interesting data like which doctypes are used are missing.
> For Example, how often do you encounter IBM's XHTML doctype.
> The same for HoTMetaL doctypes

The section covering doctypes is scheduled for next week as we move on to the Markup area in the "basic document structure" topic.

MAMA encountered softquad HoTMetaL doctype variants 9,950 times.
IBM doctype variants were found 144 times
blooberry21. October 2008, 15:39:12
iliiad said:
> I'm not too sure what MAMA will be?
> It seems MAMA is a search engine developed and used internally
> by Opera? Will there be a version available to the public?

It is currently Opera-internal only, but making it available to the public is definitely the plan.