Iran officially launched its own search engine, Yooz, as a response to Western sanctions on Tehran's controversial nuclear program. The national search engine is an alternative to Google and its similar systems. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Iran stated that the search engine is capable of processing up to 1 billion sites in the Persian language. The word Yooz in Persian means a cheetah.
The Iranian search engine is available at . According to the International Business Times, it is much faster and safer than existing Western search engines, such as Google, Yahoo or Bing. The search engine Yooz was presented at a ceremony in the Iranian capital Tehran, which was also attended by the Minister of Communications and Information Technology of the country Mahmoud Vaesi.
Curator Yooz Mehdi Nagawi says that Google, to which Iranian users are accessing 25 million times a day, has become the central core of the Internet. The new Iranian project, he said, will help get rid of it and ensure the safety of users in cyberspace.
Further it is planned to add resources to Yooz in Arabic and English, increasing the coverage to 6 billion sites, and later to 24 billion. The Minister also promised to launch this year another search engine - Parsijoo.
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