Pipilika ( bn, পিপীলিকা) was a Bangladeshi
search engine
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and the first search engine introduced by Bangladesh.
It was launched in 2013 to cater to the linguistic and cultural needs of the Bengali-speaking population. The search engine was shut down in 2021.
It is the country's first Bangla search engine developed by the
Computer Science and Engineering
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students of
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) is a Public university, public research university, research based university in Sylhet, Bangladesh. It is the List of universities in Bangladesh#Public universities, 8th oldest university o ...
as a thesis project.
Copyright
The copyright of Pipilika was requested by three students: Burhan Uddin, Ahmed Chisty, and Sudipta Kar via online application to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology. But it was never resolved by the current executive committee of Pipilika, SUST.
Shutdown
It was shut down in 2021.
See also
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Comparison of web search engines
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List of search engines
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Timeline of web search engines
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Noviforum
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References
External links
Archived snapshot
Defunct internet search engines
Websites which mirror Wikipedia
Online companies of Bangladesh
Bengali-language websites
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