PETALING JAYA: Researchers will now find it easier to sift through archived information on the country’s former Prime Ministers at the Perdana Leadership Foundation website thanks to Google Mini Search.
Tan Sri Nik Mohamed Yaacob, executive director of the foundation, said Google Mini Search is able to index millions of pages in any database and return fast, accurate results.
“We believe this will be a boon to researchers and members of the public keen to know more about our leaders and the nation’s history,” he said.
There are already about 300,000 digital documents, comprising speeches, news clippings, journal articles, books and other materials about the prominent men, and the database is growing.
Nik Mohamed said Perdana received a special deal from US-based Internet search king Google Inc on the use of Google Mini Search because the foundation is a non-profit organisation.
Google Mini Search, he said, is also more user-friendly than the search engine included in the foundation’s library-management solution.
The foundation was set up in 2003 with the aim of preserving, developing and disseminating materials by and on Malaysia’s former Prime Ministers. It is located in Putrajaya.
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www.perdana.org.my/
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