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Guruji has launched a mobile version of its search site. One does not need to go on another url and just keying in guruji.com on one’s wap/gprs phone is good enough to land you to the mobile version.

Search on mobile isn’t a new service as even another indian player onyomo.com has had a mobile search [...]

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% [...]

Guruji.com which started a year back as one of the first few local indian search engine which took up the challenge of aggregating local information by making tie ups with infomedia has now gone ahead and announced its plans to launch a google adwords like model by 2008. Guruji which was funded by Sequoia Capital [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last month we blogged about Guruji’s Search and Win contest and whether it was a nice strategy to achieve long term searchers.
Well how successful has the contest been?We don’t really have figures on that yet but we’ll try to get some for you.
Let’s get to the point now. If you are a frequent Rediff user [...]

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 [...]

Apologies for the title, but couldn’t resist using it!
So what is happening in the Localised Search sphere in India?
Onyomo launches mobile search portal
We first blogged about OnYoMo last October and recently mentioned about their tie-up with Big FM for mobile search…
Well the latest is that, Onyomo has launched a mobile WAP (wireless access protocol) site [...]

Venture intelligence summit on Internet and Mobile was held last week. Many well known faces in the internet industry had graced the occassion.
The summit started with Internet and speaking on internet was a panel of elite internet entrepreneurs and Vc’s as well.
The panel included Murugavel J, CEO of BharatMatrimony, Ashish Gupta MD of HelionVC, [...]