Iran to bid adieu to Google and Yahoo and welcome ‘Ya Haq’ aka ‘Oh Lord’
Posted on 29. Aug, 2010 by Allen Smith in Buzz
Iran will have an indigenous search engine that will go live by 2012.
Google coming up with so many goodies and add-ons it would never be expecting to face a new competition in Iran. Yes, Iran has been developing its own search engine ‘Ya Haq aka ‘Oh Lord.’
New kid on the block, the ‘Oh Lord,’ will be the search engine with Iranian flavor surely will be one to highlight high-resolution images of the Iran President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or the regretful testimonials of those who oppose the Green Movement activism.
Hadi Malek-Parast, DG of the Research and Development, Iranian Information Technology Company, have confirmed that the country has been working on developing a national search enging billed as ‘Ya Haq’ which is Persian word ‘Oh Lord.’
Faster search capacity and higher security for online communication has been the need that the research team looked for developing the ‘Ya Haq’,
Malek-Parast also said that ‘Ya Haq’ will be launched in 2012 and referred that it wi;; be the domestic or local Intranet, and not international Internet as talked by competitors. The search engine will give access to local organizations according to reliable source.
The idea of developing local intranet began sometime back when there had been an increased feeling of viewing Internet as a weapon of the West, say Pujan Ziaie, one IT strategist in the ‘green’ opposition movement.
But does Iran have the knowhow or the infrastructure to make ‘Ya Haq’ or ‘Oh Lord’ as a parallel internet to the Google or Yahoo? And what could be the real vested interest of developing the Ya Haq search engine (other than cheaper and faster and more secure mode of communication)?
