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September 23, 2012

DEITY unveils internet search engine based on Indian languages - The Economic Times

DEITY unveils internet search engine based on Indian languages 
NEW DELHI: Government today launched a search engine that will help people in searching tourism-related queries across websites in five Indian languages. 

The search engine, Sandhan, was launched by Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DEITY) Secretary J Satyanarayana here. 

"This will fill the wide gap that exists in fulfilling the information needs of Indians not conversant with English- estimated at 90 per cent of the population," an official statement said. 

Sandhan can find response to queries on website in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu. 
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