Pipilika
Web search engine
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Pipilika (Bengali: পিপীলিকা) was a Bangladeshi search engine and the first search engine introduced by Bangladesh.[2] It was launched in 2013 to cater to the linguistic and cultural needs of the Bengali-speaking population.[3] The search engine was shut down in 2021.[4]
Pipilika Logo | |
Type of site | Web search engine |
|---|---|
| Available in | Bengali, English |
| Country of origin | Bangladesh |
| Owner | Shahjalal University of Science and Technology |
| Created by | SUST Students and Faculties[1] |
| URL | https://pipilika.com/ |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 13 April 2013 |
| Current status | inactive |
It is the country's first Bangla search engine developed by the Computer Science and Engineering students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology as a thesis project.[2]
Shutdown
Pipilika was shut down in 2021. As it was a university project and not a commercial project, it didn't receive proper funding in order to develop it as a revenue generating medium. It also had no promotional content about it, which made most people unaware of the existence of Pipilika.[5]
