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

[Monica Narula]

But unfortunately only seems to claim to work on Internet Explorer.  
Didnt work either on mozilla or Safari on my mac...

best
M

On 14-Oct-06, at 11:06 AM, Peeyush Bajpai wrote:

> 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
>
>
>>
>>   1. INDIA'S FIRST LOCAL INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE (Moslem Ali Quraishy)
>>   2. Re: INDIA'S FIRST LOCAL INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE (Shivam Vij)
>>
> The Hindu Business Line
>>
>> www.guruji.com, founded by two Delhi IIT graduates, on Thursday  
>> launched
>> country's first local Internet search engine.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> Moslem Quraishy
>>
>>
>>
>> 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>
>> Message-ID:
>>        <9c06aab30610130532l35842ee6gb24618f35a5eba77 at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; format=flowed
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> best
>> s
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://www.shivamvij.com
>>
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