Askme.in – Our Review – Ask Why It Has Been Designed?
Another local search portal has joined the wagon – Askme.in (beta version). This portal has been launched by Infomedia 18. Listings are distributed under 18 categories and 74 cities. Infomedia is calming to have more than 3 million business listings.
Quick Look to
Features:
- Click to Call
- Narrow Search
- Take business card on phone via SMS
- Share on FB, Twitter only
- Preview of ad on yellowpages, just check
- Map based view
- Business Photo & Video upload
- Rate search results
- Listing Preference – Infomedia listing first, rest comes afterwards..
- Essentail Numbers like Taxi, Ambulance, LPG etc…(powered by burrp)
Design:
- Neat and clear designed
- No ads on search result page (Surprised)
- Business listing page could be better
- Good use of Blue and yellow color
Askme.in is powered by Infomedia Yellow pages. Wonder if instead of developing a new portal they could have just redesigned their existing portal – yellowpages.co.in and integrated Burrp.com with that?
In an all, Askme.in hasn’t come up with any new idea. Its just an outcome of taking ideas (not even all good ideas) from similar portals and putting it at one place but this sort of dish may not be liked by the audience.
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I agree what you said in the end. Why didn’t Infomedia just restructured yellow pages website and burrp. I feel that the brand image that YP has is of print media so it wont work online and burrp has got a image of local search engine. However just dial has always been leader in local search. So they just want to come up with a service which was alive long back askme.
I feel that is the reason for having a all new website
JustDial sues Askme.in–Askme.in has been asked to shut down by the High Court in view of evidence clearly indicating how it stole data from Justdial.com. Read the news here:
http://news.oneindia.in/2010/01/30/data-theft-hc-asks-askme-in-to-shut-down.html
please let us know if infomedia will be a failure, since we are about to decide on giving them a advertising contract…..
anyone has other better directory (print), or online option…for the world, starting from an audience from mumbai, india