Davindi
Encyclopedia
Davindi is a search engine
Search engine
A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...

 for searching the open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 Kennisnet
Kennisnet
Kennisnet is a Dutch public organization dedicated to ICT-innovation for primary and secondary education and vocational training. Kennisnet provides educational content and information to teachers, pupils and parents...

 database. The name is a pun on Leonardo Davinci's surname and the Dutch word vind which means find in English.

It doesn't crawl the internet but only gives search results which are vetted by Davindi editors. Apart from text documents also videos images and sound files can be found. The search engine also gives results from other educational sources such as Kennislink. Davindi gives results from more than 50,000 sources related to primary and secondary education, vocational education and adult education.
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