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Developer Shayne Sweeney is the technical brains behind Gada.be. Pirillo says that his PlayStation portable was one example of the inspiration behind the engine. "The browser worked kind of well, but try to go to a Web site and look for something and wait for it to load. I thought, 'This is a pain in the ass.' So I thought, 'What's easy to type in?' I thought, 'gada,' then 'be, who the hell's got a .be domain? It's, like, Belgium.'" "Gada.be" translates, on the number pad on most cell phones and PSPs, to 4232.2233.

"It's a minimum amount of keystrokes," Pirillo said. "To save more, you put the query as the subdomain. You type in without having to worry about 'Forward slash, before, after, point, what? Compare that with what it's like searching on a mobile device. Not fun, Pirillo said. "If you've ever tried to visit a Web site over a mobile device, you know it's a pain in the knuckle," Pirillo wrote in the site's "about" section. "Normally, when you want to find something online, you have to choose a Web site (wait for the page to load) enter the query (wait for the second page to load) then see results from that provider," he wrote. With "Gada.be," you insert the query as the subdomain. "Then, there's having to visit several sites just to get the results you want. Often, this isn't feasible when you're on the go. "Even when you're sitting with a laptop or chained to a desktop, it's still a time-consuming process.

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