March 18, 2008

Singapore’s own Search Engine launched

Alvinology said:

Hear ye! Hear ye!

Singapore finally has its own search engine! :)

Online search and directory company SPH Search today launched Singapore’s first local search and directory engine - rednano.sg.

Two key features of Rednano are that it is focused on delivering the most appropriate results when it comes to information specifically on Singapore and that it will make access to this information as easy to select as possible.

It is able to do this because of its understanding of the local environment through its heritage and its use of “federated search”. Federated search means users can conduct just “one search” and get “all results” from each of Rednano’s six verticals or categories. The six verticals are: Web, News, Images, Directory, People and Maps Search.

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Trackback from Nerd | Geek:

SPH Search beta launches their own search engine called rednano.sg, their own localised version of Google, Yahoo (do note that they are partnering Yahoo for this). ...

Trackback from Nerd | Geek:

I’m sure the many readers to yesterday’s post about SPH’s newest search engine, rednano.sg will probably have tried using it to search for stuff by now. ...

Trackback from the(new)mediaslut: Will Rednano.sg find Google’s gold?:

Though it is position as a search engine, I think the money spinner for Rednano.sg won’t be in search but in the directory.

I won’t be surprised if the sales team start soliciting companies to pay premium for top position in the directory section....

not touching anything by SPH. Probably log the searches and turn it over to authorities.

Posted by Anonymous dude* on 20 March, 2008 - 12:28pm

I think you are right. I just tried to access the page via an anonymous proxy so that they can't track my IP address or put malicious cookies on my hard disk --- and the search engine failed to work.

Posted by Paranoid dude* on 20 March, 2008 - 1:44pm

I wish they had search for their newspaper archives and ability to read older articles.

interestingly, i keyed in 1003 and 913, the respective station websites from SPH Unionworks appeared top on the list.

When I tried "933" and "yes933", the official site didn't appear on the 1st page.

Apparently its "understanding of the local environment" is somewhat distorted.

Posted by Anonymous Coward* on 20 March, 2008 - 10:47pm

it's to promote SPH's own material what. What you expect. You type in Lee Kuan Yew I expect every link that comes up is going to be full of praise. Type chee Soon Juan all you get is shit about him.

Posted by Anonymous dude* on 21 March, 2008 - 6:03am