Internet search engine for Hindi soon

Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/2005/Apr/24/181_1334487,0008.htm

Internet search engine for Hindi soon
Press Trust of India
Chennai, April 24, 2005

After developing the world's first search engine for Tamil language websites, city-based Anna University-KB Chandrasekar Foundation is now in the process of developing an Internet search engine for Hindi.

"We are at the second stage (alpha level) of the development of Hindi search engine," S Bhaskar, a research scientist at the Language Technologies division of the Foundation, said.

The Language Technologies division, which comprises of 16 research scientists, last year developed a search engine for Tamil Websites, which can do both site specific and web searches.

Bhaskar said the Hindi search engine, perhaps a first of this sort, would be ready in the coming months. Now, only 'Webduniya.Com' possess a Hindi search engine.

The Hindi search engine would search the contents of several Hindi websites to produce a result, which is not possible in the existing search engines.

The Foundation is a novel private-public initiative, where the land was provided by the University and the initial seed capital of Rs seven crore from Chadrasekhar who belongs to the 1983 batch of Madras Institute of Technology.