Performance Comparison of Qur’anic Search Engines

The trend of information retrieval related to Islamic scriptures is on the rise. One of the most popular and regularly read Islamic scripture is the Digital Quran. Digital Quran is written in Arabic and involve the use of diacritics/symbols. These diacritics assist the user in reading the Quranic verses properly and interpret the meaning correctly. However, these diacritics reduce the accuracy of Quranic verse retrieval. There are numerous Quranic websites available on the internet from where users can find and retrieve any Quranic verse. This paper investigates the performance of most popular Quranic search engines with respect to the accuracy of verse retrieval based on different observations. The findings will help in developing a more efficient search engine for Digital Quran.