There is something so exciting about discovering places and what is even more exciting is the power to share that excitement with friends. Add to it, the potential of Local and location-based advertising...

We caught up with Anurag Dod, CEO and Co-Founder, Guruji.com and questioned him about the guruji ad network and its differentiation, guruji’s experience with regional language search and lots more....

I swear on the digital gods that I intended no pun with the title of the post. News has it that BPL Mobile as a brand has ceased to exist and will now be known as Loop mobile. The reason is to build a...

Guruji has launched its own ad network and it joins the long list of ad networks out there trying to make better of a slowing economy. Why is it important? – Guruji is the ad network funded by Sequoia...

Search has been dominant enough on the web to create some of the biggest names in the Industry. And there is no denying who the most dominant name in the field. Google has now gone on to dominate other...

Classifieds seem to be back in business! A new player in this niche is Khojle.in. This follows GetIt.in (A company which raised around $4 million from Helion ventures) http://www.watblog.com/2009/02/03/funding-updates-getit-gets-20-crores-from-helion-ventures/ Khojle...

From being a local search engine to a mobile search player to adding a finance vertical Guruji.com seems to be on a joyride across different digital segments and now it has got on the social bandwagon...

A Malaysia based media conglomerate Astro Group has acquired a 50% stake in little known Indian online firm Mogae Digital for $5 million. That puts the valuation of Morgae digital at 10 million and I have...

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,...

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...

Its was just recently that Yahoo went local in India with local information portal but when Yahoo does that how can google be far behind? Well Google which launched google search after a plethora of local...

Ohk.. You might think why are we blogging this so late?? When half the world’s bloggers have reported analysed and given their comments. We got this press release early yesterday and have still...

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...

Yahoo India has launched the local search engine (public beta launch). Here is the link.          The local search is currently available in the top 4 cities – Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and...

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...

Yes WATShow is Back! And Back With a Bang! Guess we caught up with this week?? (ok i know you read the title but just cant help our excitement!) Yes its none other than the Man heading the worlds largest...