Nepal’s News Sites Lose Every Day to Copy-Paste Thieves
Nepal’s News Sites Lose Every Day to Copy-Paste Thieves The cheapest competitor a Nepali news site has is a thief. I ran…
8 min readaka Yukesh Rajbanshi
“If it matters, build it anyway.”
Engineering Nepal’s independent digital ecosystem.
From a village in Morang to a search engine used across the country — the full biography, failures included.
Read the biographyWeb, news, images and trends under one independent platform, built at home.
From a campus in Morang to Nepal’s search engine.
2016
Completed a computer programming programme — the base for everything that followed.
2018
A media and advertising initiative. First product, first lesson in building for a local audience.
2019
Launched a digital content delivery platform, and registered what would become Niguro under the name Niriv.
2021
Media and aggregation insights coalesced into one undertaking: sovereign digital infrastructure — crawlers, indexing, local relevance.
January 2026
Niguro officially launches as Nepal’s independent search engine — web, images, videos, news, and products under one platform.
Now
Scaling Niguro’s index, writing the journey at the Lab, and opening the playbook at Insights.
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