WikiLeaks unveils new search engine 'PLUS D'

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has unveiled a new search engine, PLUS D (The Public Library of the United States Diplomacy), which is a portal to an archive of 1.7 mn US diplomatic cables.

The search engine includes 2,50,000 leaked state department cables that were made public during Cablegate, the time in the US history where memos of Henry Kissinger's time as the US Secretary of State were made public.

Over 251,000 of those cables relate to events or communications between 2003-2010, News.com.au reports.

According to the report, Assange confirmed that the US state department documents listed on PLUS D are already declassified and much of the information has already been available in the US National Archives and Record Agency.

Assange said that the range of publicly-available documents range in the number of 2 mn and were therefore not efficient to search through, the report said.

The Australian activist said Plus D would make it easier for journalists to conduct investigations, by using a search algorithm that 'rivalled Google.'