Cuba launches its own search engine

Cuba launches its own search engine

Cuba has built its own search engine service which indexes speeches by Cuban leader Fidel Castro and other government sites.

This search engine is located at www.infosoc.cu/buscador. It was launched at a conference this week and showcases the fact that the internet freedom is restricted in this nation.

Cubans are not free to buy computers freely and the internet access is limited to state employees, academics and foreigners.

This newly launched search engine can search Cuban servers, or the Cuban intranet which includes as many as 150,000 government sites and the state-run media.

The creator of this search engine Leandro Silva said in a statement: “The aim is to search Cuban Web sites without having to rely on foreign engines.”