Najdi! (, meaning "Find!") is a

search engine A search engine is a software system that provides hyperlinks to web pages, and other relevant information on World Wide Web, the Web in response to a user's web query, query. The user enters a query in a web browser or a mobile app, and the sea ...

specialized in

Republic of Macedonia North Macedonia, officially the Republic of North Macedonia, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe. It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo to the northwest and Serbia to the n ...

media content. Unlike most search engines, it does not utilize a

spider Spiders (order (biology), order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude spider silk, silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and ran ...

to gather the content it indexes, but interfaces directly with the websites it covers through RSS or other XML, in combination with the

SWISH-E SWISH-E stands for ''Simple Web Indexing System for Humans - Enhanced''. It is used to index collections of documents ranging up to one million documents in size and includes import filters for many document types. SWISH-E is based on SWISH, de ...

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use and view the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open source model is a decentrali ...

software. Founded by IT expert Petar Kajevski, "Najdi!" quickly rose to prominence due to the volume of information it covers, and the specific upgrades of the software tailored for content in Macedonian. Besides content of news sites, "Najdi!" also features searches of Macedonian blogs, and printed books. In 2005, "Najdi!" won the national competition and became the official candidate of

in the e-Inclusion category of the

World Summit Award The World Summit Awards (WSA) rewards Information and Communications Technologies projects that have a positive impact on society at the local level. The award was initiated in 2003, within the framework of the United Nations World Summit on the ...

.World Summit Award Winners Selected!
''Metamorphosis''. 18 September 2005. URL accessed 6 June 2006.

References

External links

Najdi! website
{{Webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060613001011/http://najdi.org.mk/ , date=2006-06-13 Domain-specific search engines Mass media companies of North Macedonia