Singapore - A Singaporean search portal will be launched next year to provide answers and information about the city-state to anyone in the world, developers said Tuesday.
SPH Search, the first locally focused search engine set up in Asia, will use content from a variety of different sources and filter out useless information.
"There`s an evolution of search from being just pure web search to search within destination sites," The Straits Times quoted Zia Zaman, executive vice-president of Fast Search & Transfer (Fast), as saying.
Norway-based Fast is developing the technology.
The search portal will be capable of taking note of a customer`s details, such as profile, locale, language and search histories. Such details will then be used to tailor the search results.
Source: www.theage.com (30 Oktober 2007)
