Setooz search is extended from 13 to 23 languages

'Setooz' is now offering search in 23 languages. You can visit the language home page and search. You can also provide feedback by clicking the feedback link at the bottom of the page.

Arabic - http://ar.setooz.com
Bosnian - http://bs.setooz.com
Bulgarian - http://bg.setooz.com
Croatian - http://hr.setooz.com
Czech- http://cs.setooz.com
Danish- http://da.setooz.com
Dutch- http://nl.setooz.com
Estonian- http://et.setooz.com
Farsi- http://fa.setooz.com
Finnish- http://fi.setooz.com
Greek- http://el.setooz.com
Hungarian- http://hu.setooz.com
Latvian - http://lv.setooz.com
Lithuanian- http://lt.setooz.com
Norwegian- http://no.setooz.com
Polish- http://pl.setooz.com
Romanian- http://ro.setooz.com
Serbian- http://sr.setooz.com
Slovak- http://sk.setooz.com
Swedish- http://sv.setooz.com
Turkish- http://tr.setooz.com
Ukrainian- http://uk.setooz.com
Urdu- http://ur.setooz.com

Setooz(local language search engine) - preliminary launch

Setooz (pronounced as say-thuuz), a new web search engine, aims to become the world's local language search engine is all set to launch. It can currently search web pages written in Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian, Slovakian, Bulgarian, Greek and Turkish. Arabic, Persian and Urdu are to come soon.

Setooz has technology to search many of the world's local languages, but as a preliminary launch we will be supporting 23 world languages (visit www.setooz.com to view the list).

The whole idea of local language search started when Prasad ( CEO & founder of Setooz ) observed that, "Most of the popular search engines view search as a information overload problem. Whereas, most of the local languages face information under-load problem." Hence search engine dealing with information overload languages, can compromise a bit on recall and concentrate more on precision of the system. But in case of, most the local languages information is under-loaded and the system can't compromise on the recall.

Motivated by this whole thought Prasad immediately started to develop a web search engine for eight Indian languages under the guidance of Vasudeva Varma (Co-founder of Setooz). Later he choose this project for his Ph.D and titled it as WebKhoj ( Origin:Hindi Meaning:Web Search ). Experiments have proved that, the approach taken by Prasad has increased the recall of system with not much loss in the precision. Motivated by the findings for Indian languages, Prasad and Vasu decided to start a company that can address similar issues in world languages by developing the right language intelligence, which gave birth to Setooz.

As webkhoj was very custom built for Indian languages, Setooz had to be built from scratch to generalize the ideas of recall improvement to all world languages. This meant bringing in some automatic machine learning components that can learn as the system sees more examples. While webkhoj was a pretty static system, Setooz now becomes a living system whose intelligence grows by the day.

Right now Setooz can search web pages in 13 languages, the remaining 10 languages will be made available in few days. Also we are planning to launch a mobile version of Setooz.