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watch One-Minute World News Last Updated: Tuesday, 15 July,
2003, 07:42 GMT 08:42 UK World's poor to get own search engine
Alfred Hermida By Alfred Hermida BBC News Online technology
editor  People in poor countries could soon have a new and cheap
way to get hold of the wealth of information on the internet.
The TEK software being tested The search engine is being
developed at MIT labs in Boston Researchers at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a search engine
designed for people with a slow net connection.   "More and more
we are creating an information divide in the world and this can
help narrow that divide and have a huge benefit in that sense, "
said Professor Saman Amarasinghe of MIT's Laboratory for
Computer Science in Boston.  The thinking behind the TEK search
engine is that people in poor countries are short of money but
have time on their hands, whereas people in the West are cash-
rich but time-poor.  "The ide