Parsijoo

Type of site	Search engine
Founded	May 18, 2010; 13 years ago (2010-05-18)
URL	www.parsijoo.ir
Current status	Defunct

Parsijoo (Persian: پارسی‌جو, Parsiju) was an independent knowledge-base Internet company, operating as a search engine for the Persian language. As of 2016, Parsijoo had 600,000 hits and 120,000 searches per day.^[1] Parsijoo is Iran's second most visited search engine after Google.^[1] As of October 2022, parsijoo.ir no longer exists or refuses requests from outside Iran.^{[citation needed]}

History

The study phase of the project was started in 2001 and the first version of Parsijoo was released on the web in 2010 with only one service: web search. It now offers various online services currently running on its fifth edition (including image, music and news service). Parsijoo's design is primarily based on the Persian language and culture.^{[citation needed]}

Each service has its own purpose to help users find what they are looking for in the vast amount of information available on the Web.^{[citation needed]}

Services

• Web^[2] - Quick and precise search among the Persian pages.

• Image^[3]

• Video^[4]

• Ava^[5] - search through songs, music tracks and audio files, and play and download directly

• News^[6] - The most intelligent Iranian news search service that has crawled the news pages of more than 60 news websites and provides the news to users with categorization and intelligent grouping.

• Market^[7] - The market service has crawled various products from more than 20 online shopping reputable websites, and provide the product specifications (price, inventory, features), as well as the final purchase page to the user directly through a search.

• Map^[8] - Parsijoo map service is known as the first and most specialized native map service in Iran. Parsijoo map service has important features such as wide coverage, precise details, drawing capabilities, editing, location registration (add a place), unique cartography, several information layers and multiple updates at short intervals. There are currently about 650 cities of Iran with 80% coverage with more than 530 information layers.

• Download^[9] -Download service has crawled a number of different downloaded files (software, Android apps, books, movies, animation, etc.) from more than 20 respected and recognized download websites, and then provide the final files to the user directly through a search. The ability to categorize and group, as well as remove duplicates is in this service.

• Translate^[10] - Powered by Targoman translation system and translates the text or word in real time and online mode.

• Scholar^[11]

Value added services (VAS)

• Weather^[12]

• Online employment^[13] - Employment service has crawled job postings from reputable websites and allows users to search and display the most relevant results.

• Prayer times^{[citation needed]}
• Calendar^{[citation needed]}
• Sport^{[citation needed]}
• Price - the prices of some index items (e.g., currency, coins, stock exchange).^{[citation needed]}

Parsijoo Shakhes

Parsijoo Shakhes^[14] is the first and only analyst of Persian web pages. It provides quantitative and qualitative information on the status of Persian web pages on the Farsi web (e.g. Alexa).^{[citation needed]}

Shakhes can display the number of crawled and indexed pages of a site, and then show the visibility mode of the site in Parsijoo search engine. Using Shakhes, will be able to observe the number (and name) of sites that have links to a website, the number of clicks made on the site and also website ratings.^{[citation needed]}

Customs services

Parsijoo provides some custom services for enterprises and developers, such as custom web search, enterprise search engine and map personalization management services (Location-Based).^{[citation needed]}

Censorship

Parsijoo has been accused of censorship, which it has denied, claiming it is more private and uncensored than Google.^{[citation needed]}

Parsijoo APIs

• Parsijoo Map API^[15]

• Parsijoo Weather API^{[citation needed]}
• Parsijoo Price API^{[citation needed]}

Parsijoo advertising system

Parsijoo banner advertising

Parsijoo targeted advertising

Kids Games - Play Kids Games | Share-Games^{[citation needed]}

Parsijoo blog

The official Parsijoo blog, i.e. pblog.parsijoo.ir was the closest link between users and Parsijoo. Users will be able to get the latest changes, services, new features, articles, technical comments, IT & search news, Parsijoo statistics, interesting images & videos and whatever else as a new move in Parsijoo.^{[citation needed]}

Parsijoo mobile applications

According to the importance of mobile apps in users intelligent life, Parsijoo has done design and develop of three Android apps. Parsijoo offered three different Android apps has been welcomed by users.^{[citation needed]}

• Parsijoo Mobile Application - search web, music (Ava), images, videos، news, download and market.^{[citation needed]}
• Parsijoo Translate Application - translate texts.^{[citation needed]}
• khabarjoo Application - search and view the news^{[citation needed]}