Iran to Replace Google with ‘Oh Lord’
By Benjamin Joffee – WALT / The Media Line 20-08-2010 Home grown search engine set to go by 2012 It all began in the early 1990’s with Internet search engine startups like Excite, Galaxy, Lycos and Webcrawler. Then Yahoo and Alta Vista moved in, followed only a few years later by what would become the neighborhood bully: Google. Now Iran would like to introduce the new kid on the block... Ladies and Gentelmen, please welcome ‘Oh Lord,’ a homegrown Iranian search engine sure to highlight very high resolution photos of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the regretful testimony of green movement opposition activists. Hadi Malek-Parast, Director General for Research and Development at the Iranian Information Technology Company, told the Iranian Mehr News Agency on Sunday that Iran has started developing a national search enginged dubbed ‘Ya Haq’, a Persian expression meaning “Oh Lord.” Speaking of the need for faster search capacity and higher security for the cou...