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Recap 2008: Local Search Space

Recap 2008: Local Search Space

The local search space came into focus in India way back in 2006 with the funding of guruji.com and then there were a flurry of players that ventured into this space right from onyomo, asklaila, yulop, burrp and a few others.

The year 2008 started with Asklaila launching its local search services in mumbai and guruji [...]

Airtel & BPL Mobile Launch City Search Feature - Airtel Ties Up With AskLaila For the same

Airtel & BPL Mobile Launch City Search Feature - Airtel Ties Up With AskLaila For the same

Telecom players seem to be waking up to the power of local search so both Airtel and BPL seem to have launched local search products that their large subscriber base can use. While BPL Mobile has launched the local search service only in Mumbai, Airtel with its tie up with AskLaila has launched the service [...]

Sridhar B Of Sulekha.com talks about Local Commerce, Career Builder Tie up, Competition & Expansion Plans

Sridhar B Of Sulekha.com talks about Local Commerce, Career Builder Tie up, Competition & Expansion Plans

Yes we are back this time with a WATShow with Sulekha Director of Brand and Global Marketing on Sulekha.com’s focus, local commerce, userbase demographics, on their competition and also on their expansion plans. He also speaks about the recent tie up with Career Builder.
Also note his reference to Asklaila a prospective competitor which he denies [...]

Five Industry Players Answer WATBlog On Where Mobile Search Is Headed In India?

Recently Affle announced a tie up with Airtel on the sms search front with its SMS 2.0 product which would be powering the sms search on Airtel. We felt there was a need to get a sense where this Industry i.e. the mobile search space was headed be it sms search or search via mobile [...]

AskLaila Enters Mobile Search Market

AskLaila, one of India’s hottest search engines will now be available on your mobile phones via a WAP based app and also an SMS service. Any mobile subscriber with GPRS connectivity can log in to the mobile WAP site (m.asklaila.com) and find what he/ she is looking for. For subscribers who do not have GPRS connectivity or [...]

A Look at Yulop’s City Events - An Online Events Platform. A few insights into how it can be coupled with LBS

Yulop, a Banglore focussed vertically structured search engine has just launched CityEvents an online events platform for its pilot city.
 

 
 
Yulop plans to provide “in-depth event information on present and future events” for people in Bangalore, said Sridhar G, CEO, Yulop.
 

 
 
While part of this is not too impressive, because it’s simple geo tagging, there [...]

Google increases India focus launches Labs and Local Search

If you are one of google’s followers then you would know about google’s all famous labs which showcases google’s products in beta and allows users to test these products.
Google launches India centric labs.
Google labs has now gone Indian i.e. an India centric google labs can now be accessed at http://labs.google.co.in. According to the release Google [...]