The first private Search Engine has been developed in India and ready to be launched on Indian Republic day, 26th January 2021.
Some advance featured in a search engine is also added, the engine has morphological analysis, it can accept Indian language besides English. Once the user types for search, various forms of the same keywords are listed. The search engine is user-friendly and portable for Windows and Linux operating systems.
How well it will work we’ll only be able to tell after a few months of use. But it is really high time that countries started to assert their own identity and presence on the Internet as too many services have been totally US dominated and do not reflect the cultures and languages of 150+ other countries. Hopefully it is the start of a decentralisation and localisation of many services whilst retaining the connectivity between all of them.
See https://www.issuewire.com/now-india-will-search-on-its-self-made-search-engine-1689500223270276
#technology #india #qmamu #search #degoogle
I read their medium article [https://qmamu.medium.com/now-india-will-search-on-its-self-made-search-engine-7b1277399333] yesterday and it seems like a scam to me for a number of reasons:
the search engine is designed in such a way that every page is encoded and can be stored in a uniform encoding pattern from the huge database of the search engine. This unique feature of QMAMU
they’re just describing (extremely poorly) the general behavior of any search engine. there is nothing unique about storing each page in a uniform encoding pattern in a huge database.
Once the user types for search, various forms of the same keywords are listed.
search suggestions are not an “advanced feature”. they’re expected from any modern search engine.
The search engine is user-friendly and portable for Windows and Linux operating systems.
so the search engine is not web based?
claimed to be the most portable and user-friendly web search engine of India.
what does a “portable” search engine mean? what does “most user-friendly” mean? how do you measure user friendliness?
The software system of “QMAMU” is developed to perform internet searches by using the high privacy featured.
I am going to ignore the typo and assume that they meant “high privacy features”. Now, what does this even mean? What are “high privacy features”?
The article is extremely poorly written. “QMAMU” is always in quotes and bolded. And that too inconsistently. In many places the quotes aren’t balanced. There are a number of typos and grammatical errors. A school student can write a better article.
Their website [https://qmamu.com] has no details about them whatsoever. The links to about page, privacy policy and terms of service are broken.
They might just be running a searx instance under the hood. This seems like a cheap attempt to get funding from the government.
All that said, I want there to be a good alternative to Google. I hope that I am wrong and this does infact prove to be a viable alternative.
Yes I’m waiting to hear opinions from their citizens over the next week to hear what their experience is. I’d like to hear from a content perspective if they feel it is doing more for them regionally.
Well it worked for Qwant to get millions from the french government for questionable results lol. It’s still mainly bing results on Qwant, no real independent indexing.
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No crawling is a standard operation where a bot goes out a crawls through sites from link to link and indexes them. Anyone can actually build one and decentralised search sites like YaCy also use them, as do the other search engines. See https://www.searchenginejournal.com/anatomy-of-a-search-engine-crawler/2230/. It’s nothing unique to QMAMU.
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