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

[Ravikant]

Same results with Konqueror, the browser from the immensely popular .kde Linux 
distribution. Raftaar says: It is not a supported platform, we support only 
IE. 

 It has been an issue with commercial tool developers operating from India 
that they assume that everybody would use IE. But the fact remains Firefox is 
the best browser, especially if you want to browse content in Hindi or other 
Indian languages using unicode, which is the first universal coding scheme 
for most of the languages that could not be adequately represented within 
ASCII or such other formats. People in Guruji or Raftaar should know that the 
padma plugin of mozilla can convert existing scripts into unicode on the fly, 
so that you can read all the important newspapers online without downloading 
fonts, etc. What is more you can also further circulate it through your 
mailbox on Google, Yahoo, rediff or whatever. IE developers on the other hand 
have allowed people to use dynamic fonts that do not allow for copying 
content. Strange irony: Microsoft, which pushed for unicode and is using it 
for localisation, like Linux does, also promotes efforts such as webdunia - 
which hardly works on any other platform!  Anyway, for sensible solutions - 
whether 'Indian' or 'global' - for Indic languages, esp. Hindi, you can visit 
these sites: 

http://devanaagarii.net
http://pratibhaas.blogspot.com/2006/01/blog-post_25.html
http://www.indlinux.org


And you would be advised to use firefox with padma plugin if you want to write 
and search in Indian languages:

http://padma.mozdev.org/ 

Just naming something Hindustani will not take these small shops very far.  

cheers
ravikant 

शनिवार 14 अक्टूबर 2006 11:13 को, Monica Narula ने लिखा था:
> 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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