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Infomedia18 Sued, Askme.in Down & Deap Ubhi Quitting?
Its all happening in the wrong way for Infomedia18 the arm of Network18 which acquired burrp.com and recently launched the classifieds listings portal Askme.in. We reviewed askme and clearly stated that there was nothing new in the portal. Apparently there was a lot of copied as well. Just dial has sued Infomedia18 (thanks for the [...]
Burrp! Acquired By Infomedia18 – Strategy Or Distress?
Burrp! the local lifestyle listings company has been reportedly been acquired by Infomedia18 which is a part of the Network18 group. If one may recollect burrp! was funded by Haresh Chawla the CEO of Network18 group for an undisclosed sum. So this acquisition isn’t surprising. What is surprising though is the timing of the acquisition. [...]
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 [...]
Breaking: In.com Integrates Gmail, Windows Live Mail, Yahoo mail & Rediffmail Login – Also Integrates Burrp & Bookmyshow
In.com has done a bunch of feature and vertical addition to its horizontal portal. Recently we had blogged about all Web18 properties being brought under the in.com basket now it seems In.com is taking the concept of integration beyond Web18 properties. In.com has integrated mail logins for gmail, hotmail, yahoomail and rediffmail all together at [...]
Burrp Goes Offline Ties Up With Infomedia For New Year Guide
The new year is round the corner and like last year new year parties information would be one of the most searched the world over. Burrp.com the lifestyle and entertainment infomation services portal has made the new year centric information as a USP around the end of the year. Even last year they had a [...]
Local Search Update: AskLaila Launches in Mumbai While Guruji Plans on Adding more Local Languages!
Mumbai gets its own Laila
Asklaila the funded local search engine expanded its reach to another city after bangalore. Its Mumbai! Asklaila has launched its local search service for mumbai. Users can search for local information across 650 localities in Mumbai on www.asklaila.com.
There are many existing players with mumbai local information like onyomo, guruji, burrp, dwaar [...]
Local Search Engine Tie Ups in 2007, An Overview
With local search engines spurting out on a regular basis we have been able to observe certain interesting trends in their strategies over 2007.
Here’s a look at some tie ups and mergers that were significant enough to catch our attention. The local search engine market is now huge and here to stay contributing 25% [...]
Online and Mobile Local Search spreading its wings – Onyomo, Burrp, Sulekha and Mkhoj in the race..
Local search has been a category which has seen tremendous traction and growth in terms of startups venturing into this space in the last one year. So its no surprise that even google launched its own local search service recently.
Lets see who all are doing what on the mobile and online local search space.
Onyomo [...]
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 [...]
AskLaila where is Majnu? – One more local search site?
Well go local and then search seems to be the mantra thats catching on the web. So if one player like guruji.com which was funded for 7 million$ wasn’t enough there are a bunch of other players like burrp, onyomo, tolmolbol and justdial which was funded by SAIF partners (btw justdial is my favourite coz it worked for [...]
Burrp, Pixrat and Khichdee in Top Non-US Web 2.0 list! – Business 2.0 Magazine
Business 2.0 magazine has come out with a list of the Best Non-US web 2.0 websites that are promising and could make waves in the future. So among the list of 30 best Non-US web 2.0 startups there are 3 Indian ones which make the cut.
First being Burrp.com a lifestyle localised search player which we have mentioned many [...]
The Ringmaster of TOLMOLBOL talks about his portal.
The local search engine market is booming. One such website TOLMOLBOL that caters to local search engine and more presented at Proto.in that took place over last weekend. We Caught up with Anand Morzaria, the ringmaster for TOMOLBOL and got an insight from him on his portal .
Q1) what was the rational Behind Tolmolbol?
We built [...]
Is SMS alerts the way to go for Internet Players?
We have recently blogged about how sms is the highest revenue generator in mobile VAS space and though the question of internet players heavily leveraging sms to reach to a larger audience might have come a little later in the day (or year) but its still a trend that continues to grow among internet players in India. [...]
Guruji – Search and Win! Innovative, but will it retain users?
Let’s start off with a comment which we got from one of our readers Mahesh at WATblog.com:
Mahesh didn’t like the iBiBo ‘Earn crores to blog’ campaign. He feels Guruji is doing the same thing:
"…i am skepticalabout users using Guruji after the contest is over. In my employer company, my colleagues use Guruji daily for the [...]
Burrp Starts Sms Service – Nokia too gets Local
Burrp a local search engine for restaurants pubs discotheques, bakeries etc have recently launched an sms based services for mobile users that allows them to be updated with the latest news on restaurants pubs etc.
Users get the latest news about restaurants in their locality and are also updated with [...]