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...
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ChaCha human-powered natural language SMS search

ChaCha.com, a human-powered search engine recently extended it’s service to mobile phones, where you can type your questions and sms it to 242242 (spells chacha on mobile keypad) and one of the ChaCha’s...
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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...
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Local Search Engine Gains Ground On Online Advertisements

Online marketing is taking up the Internet space. An increasing number of web pages now display ads for marketing different product. Today the local advertising is taking over the Internet space. Plenty...
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Guruji.com to follow Guru Google’s Adwords Model!

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...
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MetroMela – Local Information & Reviews on Shopping, Health & Family!

Metromela is a new startup on the block based in Hyderabad which is catering to the local information services space in India. Though there are a bunch of players in this space like local search engines...
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Google SMS’ng its way into India

The latest scoop on google is that Google will be now available on sms. The service would be providing local information to users through sms. One does not even require a GPRS enabled handset to access...
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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...
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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...
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Ants to help you with your SEARCH – Chintee.com. But will it work?

In a typically predictable way of influencing bloggers, Chintee.com has put up a poll – Asking you to guess what Chintee.com is all about. This is what users are voting for: It’s pretty obvious...
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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...
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How are you going to get a local dosa joint in a little neighbourhood to advertise online?

Figure the answer to the above question and you might have a real successful online venture in India. Came across this interview of Vineet Buch in today’s edition of Live Mint. I would call it a...
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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...
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