Search in Vietnamese with Xalo, but Can it Go Fast?

Search in Vietnamese with Xalo, but Can it Go Fast?

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Search in Vietnamese with Xalo, but Can it Go Fast?

Search in Vietnamese with Xalo, but Can it Go Fast?

< IDG Ventures Rebranding, More Money to Vietnam | Alexa Rankings System changes and Vietnamese Publishers Rethink Web Metrics Strategy >

Vinaseek, the search engine still alive from the first wave of Vietnamese Internet just returned with new brand Xalo (means highway). With new UI and features, it is not easy to see something associated with the old Vinaseek. You can use Xalo to search web, news, blog, forum. In fact Xalo is a white label product licensed from Norway's Fast Search. As an enterprise search platform users would see the results much different from Google's user friendly ones. I do not know why Tinhvan had taken so long to localise this search engine while Singapore's SPH Search had gone faster with Rednano search service. Again I still doubt the future of Xalo as in my earlier post on Vinaseek and 2008 predictions. Of course Tinhvan could provide financing for Xalo at startup stage but with less much money spending pressure than other young startups how can Xalo produce innovative products and win users' minds?

Posted by Jason at 10:44 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I still wonder that is there any local search engines can catch up with Google because I do know now Google is using a group of Vietnamese raters to rate their search results! But still look forward for the answer from local competitors

#1 Ngon on 2008-04-13 15:43 (Reply)

I agree with Ngon, we should do something compete with google. cause competition make our world better.

#1.1 nghiavt (Homepage) on 2008-06-04 11:15 (Reply)

I think one of "small challenge" the engine should have is how can they store the content when they crawl the web! maybe have to sell all of tinhvan's business for the servers

#2 An (Homepage) on 2008-04-16 06:36 (Reply)

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