Comments on: PCWorld Announces Web Awards 2008 – A List of Winners And Guess Who Was On The Jury! :)

By: disha

disha — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:41:41 +0000

May be there were points given to the websites on the basis of design, technology & the overall performance and thus there were few sites which scored more on the design front, others on the technology-usage and still others which came out as complete winners(woaah). Guess Rajiv can better explain us this.

P.S: 31 categories were awarded (just as reflected by your table) and not 33 (as mentioned earlier)

By: John Dcruz

John Dcruz — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:59:18 +0000

I do agree with most of your visitors who have expressed their shcok at the inclusion of a few names as winners.

Specifically commenting on the auto websites,
I would like to know which other websites were considered and what were the criteria chosen for judging the final winners.

Frankly, I am happy that my favorite auto website (carazoo.com) has been chosen for Best Design, but the corresponding comment in the PC World Magazine is rather contradictory. I am sure the jury can explain and respond to al lthe various comments by your visitors

By: Rajiv Renganathan

Rajiv Renganathan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:24:00 +0000

Rajiv,

Honest question: Categories such as News & Social Networking, the overall winner is neither the best design nor the best use of tech! So, it concludes as orkut isn’t the best designed nor the best use of technology, yet for whatever reason is the overall winner!

Does not go well with me! As a jury, may be you are in a better position to pass the community feedback. (dont see a way to add comments in pcworld.in)

-Rajiv

By: Rajiv Dingra

Rajiv Dingra — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:04:28 +0000

I agree with most of what you guys say.. some winners have taken me aback as well.. though I would back cleartrip. I think its a fantastic site!

By: punkedge

punkedge — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:59:02 +0000

i think the list of websites whoever was considered for all the categories should also be shown. indya wins for best games like shit sweeper and miss malfunction
ROFLMAO =))
does the honorable jury know about games at all?
there is a serious dearth of participants in these awards i think. was there an online bidding for the prize too ??
i admire you WAT guys but im shocked at the final list. looossinnggg NRRRGG 2 rite…

By: Manish Mehta

Manish Mehta — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:09:05 +0000

What a great website is this(HDFCReality) and great description given by PCworld. I am sure enough that PCworld or even any person on this earth cannot write better comments for the hdfc site better than the justification given by pc world why they chosen this site the best in this category.
After reading this Justification, I thought it is like when a stupid and dumb guy of a class get Best Studebt award (by favor) and the teacher who is also father of the guy says “He is topper because dekho woh kabhi bhi kisi teacher ko class mein ques pooch ke tang nahi karta(Because he never comes ), He is so neat and clean dekho Har exam mein Uski Copy bhi NEat and and totally Clean Hoti Hai.”

I dont expected this with PCworld Totally Unfair. As a software engg and web savvy i thinks in this field it Comes After Top 20(or may be not in top 50 sites). See these websites

Magicbricks.com
99acres.com
Makaan.com
indiaproperty.com
indiaproperties.com
Bharatrentals.com
Propertywala.com
india1property.com
godirect.in
Many More….

PC world Cannot dare to open the Marks as it mentioned in the selection criterion because….

In Design Score (40 points): I can give this site max 10 marks
it design is not web 2.0 standerds. No smooth Navigation, Very Dark and eye catchy design, Fix layout(Not Suitable for 19” or wide monitors).Magic bricks have best visual design and propertywala.com tops in Navigation and usability. This site comes Last.

Technology (40 points): I can give this site max 5 marks.
Because They had done Nothing new in this site, No Innovation , No experiment, Even this site is not doing what other ppl are doing like sms contact(almost all), click to call (Magic), Property marking on map (Propertywala), Searching On map (Propertywala),property Images(all), Property Floor plans(all), Video walkthrough Uploading(propertywala). Wapsite(magicbricks,99acres) ,Mobile software(Magicbricks). Keyword search

ajax is current trend in web And HDFC still using the Old Postbacks and consuming so much time and bandwith of user.
I am not able to guess this websites’ rank in tecnology field. You can guess.

By: Rahul Pandey

Rahul Pandey — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:17:23 +0000

Being a user, I think the makemytrip is far better than the cleartrip, the way they have designed their website, the way they presented the information and the lots more, it doesn’t make any sense of below statements.

Travel – Best Design: Cleartrip.com
Best Technology Usage: Cleartrip.com
Overall Winner:Cleartrip.com

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:22:10 +0000

Being a lawyer myself, I refer all the legal portals regularly and I feel this award is skewed coz they haven’t even considered portals like advocatekhoj.com in the legal category which is having a far better design and technology to the ones listed.

By: raghav soni

raghav soni — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:02:36 +0000

never trust this awards..cos they are for sake of money and sponsors……how come naukri not even included where as its more in demand then monsterindia……and how come yahoo.co.in even featured in search section for best design wehn the page itself is not solely for search……….and btw did they had any market survey or public voting prior to the results or just 10-15 people decided the fate of whole web industry in india

By: Vivek

Vivek — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:48:20 +0000

Rajiv, can we have an idea on the broad parameters used for the rankings?

By: Arun

Arun — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:44:09 +0000

HDFC Realty??? Wow seems PC World got paid a lot. It is one of the worst real estate site I have seen and not even in the top 10 for more reasons than one:

1. Poor usability.
2. No standards compliance.
3. Lacks basic features like photos, videos and maps.
4. Bad navigation (no bookmarkable URLs).
5. Slow loading.
6. Not even in top 20 in terms of traffic (barely visible in this alexa graph http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/propertywala.com%2Fpropertywala.com?site0=magicbricks.com&site1=indiaproperty.com&site2=99acres.com&site3=propertywala.com&site4=hdfcrealty.com&y=r&z=3&h=300&w=610&c=1&u%5B%5D=magicbricks.com&u%5B%5D=indiaproperty.com&u%5B%5D=99acres.com&u%5B%5D=propertywala.com&u%5B%5D=hdfcrealty.com&x=2008-06-13T07%3A36%3A58.000Z&check=www.alexa.com&signature=RxorhR1b5ljkOWer1DLlCHVdxFw%3D&range=3m&size=Medium).

This is just one example, don’t get me started on some other sites in the list. Way to go PC World with journalistic integrity.

By: Utkarsh

Utkarsh — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:39:17 +0000

Cleartrip.com is my Fav site and they really are the google of travel.
Congratulations to Cleartrip!!!

By: Harshil Karia

Harshil Karia — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:11:14 +0000

are u serious!! Indya.com wins overall gaming???

By: Rajiv Dingra

Rajiv Dingra — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:47:45 +0000

well I guess rediff news is and HT do for the news category.. I mean more than asklaila for online directory.

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:30:11 +0000

abso agree on the categorisation.. hmm, am myself not sure of this one, but do rediff and HT belong on the same category?