Can Scottish students fill the Google gap with a SMART search engine?

Google might be the biggest search resource on the Internet bar none, but it's far from perfect. In some areas it's actually worse than that, and simply fails to work at all. Now students at the University of Glasgow in Scotland are attempting to fill one of these search gaps with the development of the SMART search engine. Here's the problem: ask Google "How busy is it in New York?" and you will be confronted by a whole bunch of results which don't answer you query at all. In fact, I've just done exactly that and the first result unhelpfully told me what time it was in NYC, and this was followed by equally poor results including a three years old news story concerning Anne Hathaway, tripadvisor.com reviews of Washington Square and a story about the construction of the Freedom Tower (One World Trade Center) but absolutely nothing to help me gauge how bust New York City is. The search engine for multimedia environment generated content (SMART) project aims to answer this kind of question, and provide those answers in real time. Not only would you be able to find out how busy a city center is, you'd be able to find out how busy it is right now.