Sasrutha search engine developed

Nadeesha Warnasuriya

A Sinhala search engine called Sasrutha (www.sasrutha.com) has been developed to address the local needs in the Internet by a past graduate at the Science Faculty of the Colombo University.

This web performs the functions of any other search engine like Yahoo or Google, while facilitating to use the Sinhala font for Sinhala search.

"Sasrutha is the only Sinhala search engine in the world as far as we are aware. By using it, one can easily surf the Internet for all the Sinhala webs available for a selected topic," web developer Mahen Mudalige told the Daily News.

"Sasrutha is said to have the access to 12 billion web pages and will be of much use for undergraduates, students and scholars to look up for knowledge and information in the Sinhala medium.

"It is often claimed that, though a vast knowledge is stored in English on the Internet, one can hardly find any valuable information in Sinhala for education purposes.

"Contrary to that, Sasrutha will show the great storage capacity in Sinhala in the internet," he noted.