The web is one of the applications that run over the Internet and that stores information in differentrnformats, such as image, text, audio and video. In order for the user to get the information of his/her interest,rnsearch engines play a great role. However, the general purpose search engines fail to consider the specificrnfeatures of languages other than the English language for effective information retrieval. So, to ensure thernefficiency of the IR system, local languagesâ€™ search engines are very important. Particularly, Tigrignarnlanguage is not well supported by general search engines. Due to this, we have designed and developed arnsearch engine that takes into account the specific properties of Tigrigna language. We proposed a generalrnarchitecture for Tigrigna search engine. As any other search engine, the Tigrigna search engine werndesigned has a crawler, indexer and query engine as major components. The crawler downloads andrnidentifies Tigrigna language web documents and stores them in the Tigrigna pagesâ€™ repository to be usedrnby the indexer component for further processing. The indexer performs the analysis tasks and finallyrncreates an index which is suitable for searching. The search engine provides an interface in which the userrnwrites his/her queries using Ethiopic script and an interface in which the result is displayed to the user. Inrnthis component, after the query phrase is composed in the query field, it is analyzed, searched from thernindex and finally the documents that are most relevant to this query are displayed based on their rank orderrn(descending).rnOur Tigrigna search engine is evaluated using 96 documents and some randomly selected queries that canrndemonstrate the effectiveness of the search engine using the precision-recall matrix.rnKey words: Information Retrieval, Tigrigna Search Engine, Tigrigna language Identifier, TigrignarnAnalyzer.