New search engine offers IT training results
20 April 2005
A new vertical search engine is offering internet users the opportunity to search exclusively for computer related learning and training content that is freely available online.
Edcomp.com produces quick search results displaying free computer related training resources and documents from a database of over 140,000 web resources.
The company aims to deliver better niche results than general purpose search engines like Google or Yahoo.
Thousands of Information Technology (IT) students are reportedly taking advantage of the site's database, which uses the Nutch open source search engine.
The powerful Nutch engine does everything expected from a search service, including spidering, storing, indexing, and displaying search results for many simultaneous users.
"Along with adding more free online computer and IT training and educational resources in the future, we will also be adding features to Edcomp.com's indexed resources in the future, including for each, the number of user hits, user ratings and comments, and cached pages with an opt-out option", said Scott Turton, one of the general partners of DeepSearcher, which owns Edcomp.com.
"Going forward with Nutch's open source search engine gives us the required future technical and functional development of our mission critical application, while at the same time freeing our time and resources so we can focus on the things that we do best, one of which is researching and validating all of the best free computer related training, educational, and tutorial resources on the web today."
DeepSearcher plans further integration between Edcomp.com and its other IT portal training and education websites, www.intelligentedu.com and www.educationonlineforcomputers.com. DeepSearcher's future plans include niche and specialty search engines, including its new www.genealogylocator.com service.
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