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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 [...]
DIALB2B – TradeIndia’s New On-phone Service
TradeIndia is back in news with the launch of DAILB2B service. This service has been started to help buyers & sellers to directly reach the potential business partner. With the help of DAILB2B service you now need not logon to their site to send inquiries or note down buyers/ sellers information. CCE person will perform [...]
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 [...]
MTNL’s Location Based Services – Threat To GPS?
Ever lost finding a place? Ever wanted to know where your friends really are? If you have a MTNL connection and you are in Mumbai, you now can. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) launched its new Value-Added Service “Location Based Application Services” for its Postpaid & Prepaid GSM subscribers (Dolphin/Trump) from Mumbai. The LBA service [...]
Guruji.com Goes Mobile! Also adds Gujrati.. Could Going Regional Be Guruji’s USP?
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 [...]
Yulop Launches CityFind- A Local Search Engine For Bangalore
With the advance in technology, when everything is now made available on the Internet no one seems to read either books or newspapers. Today it is possible to read newspapers, books, tutorials online. Earlier Yellow Pages and MTNL’s helpline 28888888 were used to find the address of a new hotel, building, café house and so [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Great Indian Search Engine update
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 [...]