About Us

Yodalpha was conceived by Rubin Jean-Noel, a Haitian-American computer specialist who majored in Biblical Studies at Eastern University, PA. The revolutionary idea came to him in 2012 after a Bible 101 class where he heard the term “Ancient Near East (ANE)” for the first time.

That day, when he went home after class, he searched “ANE” on Google to learn more. However, the search results yielded nothing fruitful about the Ancient Near East. Instead, they returned a lot of information about the TV station A&E and the English translation of the French word 'âne,' meaning 'donkey.'

At that instant, Rubin understood the necessity of a specialized search engine to serve students and educators. After years of research and development, his efforts came to fruition in December 2020, when the website was finally launched.

Yod is the tenth and smallest letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

Have fun searching YodAlpha!

Our Platform

Operating on a 10 Gigabit Ethernet network, YodAlpha servers run on CentOS Linux, the Apache SOLR, and VMware ESXi.

CentOS, which stands for Community Enterprise Operating System, is one of the most popular server operating systems. It is secure and stable.

SOLR, which stands for Searching on Lucene with Replication, is a widely used search platform in large and small organizations. Text analysis, geospatial search, and query suggestions are among its powerful features. The Apache Software Foundation is the world's largest open-source foundation, www.apache.org.

VMware ESXi is one of the best virtualization platforms. It is highly reliable, allowing our virtual servers to run 24/7. We are constantly monitoring our network infrastructure to ensure service availability.