Menu
Home
People
Places
Arts
History
Plants & Animals
Science
Life & Culture
Technology
Reference.org
Egerin
open-in-new
<h2 id="the-concept">The Concept</h2> <p><i>Egerin</i> was founded by Kawa Onatli, a Kurdish businessman who lives in Sweden. Onatli wanted to provide an alternative<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> to the big search engines that do not have the Kurdish language available, targeting a wide audience of between 26 and 34 million Kurds.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="technology">Technology</h2> <p>The search technology used is <a href="/facts/Solr/2WrGtlx2">Solr</a> with the rest of the technology stack being <a href="/facts/PostgreSQL/LHdXuHfl">PostgreSQL</a>, <a href="/facts/Scrapy/6xuhy3tw">Scrapy</a> and <a href="/facts/Python_(programming_language)/YbuGqofa">Python</a> web frameworks. <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Internet portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Comparison_of_web_search_engines/LrMKcpKW">Comparison of web search engines</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_search_engines/cznsla0a">List of search engines</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Timeline_of_web_search_engines/8w7c6JcD">Timeline of web search engines</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.egerin.com">Official website</a></li> <li><a href="http://stra.co.il/">STRA Marketing Company</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Kurdish Swede creates first Kurdish search engine". Bas News. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 1 January 2014. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193541/http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Kurdish-Swede-creates-first-Kurdish-search-engine/9007" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193541/http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Kurdish-Swede-creates-first-Kurdish-search-engine/9007</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"First Kurdish Search Engine, Egerin, Is Launched". SBWire. 30 December 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014. <a href="http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/egerin/sbwire-421932.htm" target="_blank">http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/egerin/sbwire-421932.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"This Entrepreneur Wants to Build a Kurdish Alternative to Google". Vice.com. 18 March 2016. <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-kurdish-entrepreneur-making-a-google-for-the-kurds/" target="_blank">https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-kurdish-entrepreneur-making-a-google-for-the-kurds/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Kurdish Swede creates first Kurdish search engine". Bas News. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 1 January 2014. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193541/http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Kurdish-Swede-creates-first-Kurdish-search-engine/9007" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193541/http://www.basnews.com/en/News/Details/Kurdish-Swede-creates-first-Kurdish-search-engine/9007</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Customers". Code and More. 11 December 2019. <a href="https://www.codeandmore.co.uk/projects/#egerin" target="_blank">https://www.codeandmore.co.uk/projects/#egerin</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>