Najdi! ( mk, Најди!, meaning "Find!") is a

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 ...

specialized in

Republic of Macedonia North Macedonia, ; sq, Maqedonia e Veriut, (Macedonia before February 2019), officially the Republic of North Macedonia,, is a country in Southeast Europe. It gained independence in 1991 as one of the successor states of Yugoslavia. It ...

media content. Unlike most search engines, it does not utilize a

spider Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...

to gather the content it indexes, but interfaces directly with the websites it covers through RSS or other XML, in combination with the

SWISH-E SWISH-E stands for ''Simple Web Indexing System for Humans - Enhanced''. It is used to index collections of documents ranging up to one million documents in size and includes import filters for many document types. SWISH-E is based on SWISH, dev ...

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

software. Founded by IT expert

Petar Kajevski Petar Kajevski ( mk, Петар Кајевски) (born 1974) is Macedonians (ethnic group), Macedonian IT and management expert. He is most famous as creator of the Macedonian search engine "Najdi!", but also achieved prominence as expert on softwa ...

, "Najdi!" quickly rose to prominence due to the volume of information it covers, and the specific upgrades of the software tailored for content in Macedonian. Besides content of news sites, "Najdi!" also features searches of Macedonian blogs, and printed books. In 2005, "Najdi!" won the national competition and became the official candidate of

in the e-Inclusion category of the

World Summit Award The World Summit Awards (WSA) is an awards system that selects and promotes local digital innovation to improve society. WSA is an international platform focused on broadcasting cutting-edge examples of how Information and Communications Technol ...

.World Summit Award Winners Selected!
''Metamorphosis''. 18 September 2005. URL accessed 6 June 2006.

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External links

Najdi! website
Domain-specific search engines Mass media companies of North Macedonia