More and more talent continues to emerge on the
African continent as a 19 year old from the University of Ghana has
developed a new video search engine that could rival Google and YouTube.
The student has developed Mudclo.com, a website
that has been described as almost matching Google’s YouTube. The
metasearch engine allows users to discover, search and stream video
content from multiple sources in one place. Surprisingly, Gabriel Opare
is working towards his Bachelor of Science degree in Sociology. But his
intense love for technology, web and graphic design has culminated in
the development of Mudclo.Gabriel believes Mudclo has the capability to
challenge YouTube and to become a global thing. Gabriel had this to say,
“Mudclo will challenge the dominance of YouTube. I believe that my
business is good enough and that it can scale globally. It is a
legitimate point to say that YouTube is a video hosting website, but
they are two different entities. While YouTube is a video hosting
website, mine combines the power of YouTube and two other video hosting
websites in order to create Mudclo.”
Despite some of the negativity enshrouding Africa,
the young talents continue to scale great heights and with this
remarkable rate of technological advancements, Africa is certainly
bec.oming a force to reckon with.
With Opare’s invention, hopefully many Africans can
be inspired to venture into creating new products that tackle our
various problems and that give Africa an identity that is very superior.
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