Nigel Hamilton is the CEO and mastermind behind Trexy.com's
innovative search technology. He has been actively involved in
the search engine industry for seven years and has a keen interest
in social search technologies. He initially developed Turbo10.com's
'Deep Net' metasearch technology for connecting to search engines
in the 'invisible web' or Deep Net.
In 2003 he presented an outline of this technology at the 12th
World Wide Web Conference entitled, 'The Mechanics of a Deep Net
Metasearch Engine'.
Based on this Deep Net technology Nigel invented a way of sharing
'search trails'. His invention is described in the international
patent application: 'Method and system for recording search trails
across one or more search engines in a communications network'.
Prior to establishing Trexy.com and its sister search engine Turbo10.com,
Nigel worked as an intellectual property barrister and information
systems lecturer. Nigel holds a Bachelor and Masters in Information
Technology (BinfTech, MInfSys) and a Masters of Law (LLM) in intellectual
property. He is an active member of the British Computer Society
(MBCS). Nigel regularly gives guest lectures in the field of Information
Retrieval at various places in the UK including:
- City University in London
- University of Nottingham
- ECIR 2006 - 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval
- Internet World London
- ASIDIC Conference - Association of Information and Dissemination
Centres
- Southampton University
- Adtech London
- Linux World
- Internet Librarian Conference
- Online Information Conference.