Now An Exclusive Search Engine for India
Just came across this news item about Terrawiz.com, a new search engine for India related content. According to the press release,
Terrawiz’s intelligent crawler automatically identifies and classifies the web content, indexing only India related information and ignoring other content. By having an Indian centric database the relevancy of the results are far better. Terrawiz’s intelligent crawler automatically identifies and classifies the web content, indexing only India related information and ignoring other content.
No details are provided on how they do that and what parameters they use to classifiy a document as “India-related” since many Indian sites don’t provide contact information at the bottom of the page.
But Anurag Dod, Founder of Terrawiz and IIT Delhi alumnus claims that “This is one of the most comprehensive search engines for India.”
The user interface is simple, a lot like Google. I tested it out and found it hadn’t indexd many of my sites (and I usually add an Indian address at the bottom of the page). Ah well, if your site is specific to India, here’s another engine to submit to.
