Egerin is a
web search engine
A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...
. It is the first search engine in
Kurdish language
Kurdish (, ) is a language or a group of languages spoken by Kurds in the geo-cultural region of Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora. Kurdish constitutes a dialect continuum, belonging to Western Iranian languages in the Indo-European languag ...
and is focused on providing a fully functional search and blog system, including videos, image, and news for the
Kurds ug:كۇردلار
Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Ira ...
.
The Concept
''Egerin'' was founded by Kawa Onatli, a Kurdish businessman who lives in Sweden. Onatli wanted to provide an alternative to the big search engines that do not have the Kurdish language available, targeting a wide audience of between 26 and 34 million Kurds.
Technology
The search technology used is
Solr
Solr (pronounced "solar") is an open-source enterprise-search platform, written in Java. Its major features include full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, NoSQL features ...
with the rest of the technology stack being
PostgreSQL,
Scrapy
Scrapy ( ) is a free and open-source Web crawler, web-crawling Web framework, framework written in Python and developed in Cambuslang. Originally designed for web scraping, it can also be used to extract data using Application programming interf ...
and
Python
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** ''Python'' (genus), a genus of Pythonidae found in Africa and Asia
* Python (mythology), a mythical serpent
Computing
* Python (pro ...
web frameworks.
See also
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List of search engines
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Timeline
See also
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References
External links
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STRA Marketing Company
Internet search engines
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