Anand Srinivasan

Anand Srinivasan writes on Internet Statistics at TechCrunchies.com. Follow him on Twitter @techcrunchies

Now Google Is Also A Dictionary

The Google search engine is not just about finding information from other websites. One of the most valuable aspects of Google search is its ability to offer a wide range of information like exchange rates, stock quotes, movie timings, dictionary lookup, synonym search etc. from the website’s search results page itself. There are nearly 22 [...]

New DoT Directive Plans To Prefix An Additional 9 To Mobile Numbers

If the Department of Telecommunications has its way, you could be spending the New Year’s day editing the contacts in your phonebook rather than actually calling your friends to wish them. A new DoT proposal plans to introduce an additional ‘9′ prefix to the existing ten digits of mobile numbers.

The reason behind the introduction is [...]

Yahoo Ranks Rahul Gandhi As India’s Top Newsmaker For 2009

When it comes to internet search engines, Yahoo is not a company one might readily think of. It is easy to forget that the company still holds significant market share in the industry which is so mightily held by Google and where Microsoft has been creating a lot of noise with the Bing search engine.

Based [...]

Yahoo Mail Loses Top Spot To Gmail In Latest Rankings For India

In what can seem like an ironic twist of fate, just when Yahoo came calling to India with the “It’s You!” campaign, Indians seem to have moved elsewhere. A new report from online analytics platform Vizisense claims that Yahoo Mail has lost its leadership position to Gmail in its latest rankings in India.

According to the [...]

Google Ads To Get Bigger and Better – The Right Way To Build The Mobile Advertising Ecosystem?

A recent estimate by Gartner claims that the number of smartphones will see a huge surge in popularity in the near future with a 27% growth predicted for this year. With more and more mobile phone users moving towards smartphones, the mobile internet market is likely to see terrific growth in the next few years.
Taking [...]

Online Matrimony Sites Focusing On Newer Technologies To Increase Revenues

Online match-making is on course to get a makeover. Falling ad revenues, which constitutes a negligible, yet significant portion of the revenues for these websites has forced these companies to have a relook at their strategies and plan for the future.
The primary revenue for most of the online matrimony websites is user subscription. ForShaadi.com, part of People Interactive, [...]

Apple App Store Surpasses Two Billion Downloads

One year and two months after it was launched, the Apple App Store has crossed a staggering milestone of two billion app downloads. What makes the number even more amazing is that the last one billion apps were downloaded in just over five months.

The Apple App Store was launched on July 11,2008. With the iPhone now available [...]

Microsoft Launches WebsiteSpark To Fight Open Source. Is This Compelling Enough?

For long Microsoft has unsuccessfully tried to woo the web developer community into using their technologies for web development. In the era of the dot-com, open source rules and it is LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQP, PHP/Perl/Python) that the web developers are after. Perhaps this is a realization a tad too late as Microsoft has announced the [...]

Samsung And DoCoMo Enter Tie-Up To Launch Android Handset ‘Galaxy’ In India

Samsung’s foray into Android operating system begins in India with a tie-up with the TATAs. Today, Samsung announced its partnership with Tata Teleservices to launch the Android handset, ‘Galaxy’ in India under this exclusive tie-up. Accordingly, Tata DoCoMo will offer its subscribers who purchase Samsung Galaxy(i7500) a monthly free download of 500 MB for six months.
Samsung Galaxy [...]

Can Indian Search Engines Ever Tackle The Google Threat?

A recent Comscore report about the state of the search engines in India states the obvious – Google is an undisputed leader in the space with close to 88.4% market share. The remaining dozen is shared by big names like Yahoo and Microsoft along with local search engines like Guruji, AskLaila and JustDial.
So statistically speaking, despite remaining in the space for [...]

Facebook Partners With Nielsen For ‘Brand Lift’ – Is Facebook Shooting Itself On Its Foot?

Social networking is great. People spend hours together on websites like Facebook and so it is a great platform for advertisers to reach out to their target audience. However, unlike Search Engine Marketing, where there is a strong “call to action” (people are searching for a keyword and a contextually targeted ad only begets a click), social networks [...]

MingleBox Launches Free CAT Portal For MBA Aspirants – Can They Make It Big?

2009 has not been a favorable year for Indian social networks. With the terrific growth of Facebook, each of these small time social networks have faced the heat, despite how they had positioned themselves. MingleBox claim to be India’s number one education network connecting students and young professionals. A look at the Alexa ranking shows a [...]

Facebook Groups Updates On SMS – Will This Help Brands Engage More With Users?

The Groups pages on Facebook is such a popular way for brands to engage with their users; so much so that brands are actually willing to spend money to advertise their Facebook pages. Now after taking so much of an effort in amassing ‘fans’ to your brand, it wouldn’t make much sense if people were [...]

Youtube Launches ‘Trending Topic’ – Inspired By Twitter

I’m not being cynical here, but it is my opinion that most popular tech blogs are quite funny sometimes when it comes to covering news. When Susan Boyle makes headlines with her singing at a talent show, it is not just her singing that makes news, but her being very much discussed on the social [...]

Arunjaitley.com Is Lawfully Mine, Claims Arun Jaitley

Arun Jaitley might not be as hot a celebrity like Yuvi or Ash, but the BJP minister still has 61 pages of information about him on Google (only 61?). That apparently makes his name a ‘commodity’ hot enough on the domain name market and the legal counsel of Mr. Arun Jaitley has now moved the [...]