[Reader-list] reader-list Digest, Vol 39, Issue 17

[Peeyush Bajpai]

Another First Hindustani Search Engine is www.Raftaar.com, the only
other difference is that it is in HINDI.

Take a look www.raftaar.com

Peeyush


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>   1. INDIA'S FIRST LOCAL INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE (Moslem Ali Quraishy)
>   2. Re: INDIA'S FIRST LOCAL INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE (Shivam Vij)
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The Hindu Business Line
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> www.guruji.com, founded by two Delhi IIT graduates, on Thursday launched
> country's first local Internet search engine.
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> Aimed at the Indian web consumer, Guruji.com is focussed on providing
> better search results by leveraging proprietary algorithms and data in the
> Indian context, its Co-Founder and CEO Anurag Dod said.
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> Crawl technology used by Guruji.com is a complex computing system that
> crawls the web identifying Indian content using sophisticated algorithms.
> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2160055.cms
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> Moslem Quraishy
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> From: "Shivam Vij" <mail at shivamvij.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] INDIA'S FIRST LOCAL INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
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> Identifying the 'national' is both utilitarian and parochial in the
> context of the web. Yet, what i this gobbledygook about the web
> algorithms - how exactly do they identify a web page as Indian? Indian
> server? The word 'India'? An article about America on an Indian site -
> is that Indian? An article about India on an American site - is that
> Indian? Except for some nauseating gyaan about India being the world's
> spiritual guru, their About section doesn't tell us much. It's just
> another IITian publicity stunt.
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> best
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> http://www.shivamvij.com
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