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Search built for Africa. African businesses, news, music, film, sport, research and culture — indexed from the sources that actually matter, ranked without burying local sites under global ones.
Every page is scored 0–100 on how African it is, and only pages scoring 30 or more are indexed. The score is stored with the reasons that produced it, so a wrong result can always be traced to the signal that let it in.
Signals include an African ccTLD, an African language, country and city names, currencies, phone prefixes, and continental institutions. A single passing mention of "Africa" is deliberately not enough — that is what every global site's navigation bar looks like, and indexing it would simply reproduce the international coverage that already buries African sites in general search.
Global sites that merely mention the continent. Wire copy that lists Africa alongside other regions. Software marketing that happens to name a country. Those are recorded as refusals with their scores, so the threshold is tuned from evidence rather than guesswork.
Relevance is BM25 over title, description and body, with titles weighted heaviest. A learned click signal can reorder results but is capped so it can never override textual relevance, and no single site may take more than three results on a page. Between two equally relevant pages, the more definitively African one wins.
The index is tokenised without an English stemmer, because Africa searches in English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Swahili and more — and an English stemmer mangles all of them.