A Nigerian youth, Christian Onah has built a search engine called Discovad Search. The site which was launched on Nov. 19th, has been fully operational after several post release testing. According to the founder, search engines and the Internet in general has become highly imperative in developing lifelong skills of information fluency.
"Everyday, millions of people all over the world search for information on the web - both personal and professional, easy and difficult, past and future, funny and serious, to meet their various demands", he said. "Being an admirer of online research/study right from my Secondary School days, it has always been my hobbie to search online for every bit of uncertainty; knowing fully well that it simplifies informed decision making."
Currently ranked among the top 10 countries with highest number of internet users(source: internetworldstats.com), the timing would not have been better than now.
On the question about acceptability and useability among Nigerian internet users, he remained optimistic - "Nigerians' poor attitude towards local content is gradually changing. Just after announcing it online, users have started responding positively, with some even promising to make it their personal home page. Though some have started comparing it with the likes of Google, but that shouldn't be the case now", he continued. "I am more interested in simplifying the process now; and if given a chance, will greatly improve on it and move on to make a big difference. Afterrall, Rome was not built in a day."
Discovad.com was launched on Nov. 19, 2010 by it's founder to pioneer Nigeria's entrance into the Internet search engine market. The site is currently configured to provide simple and relevant search results for information, images, news and jobs from all accross the Web.
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