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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 [...]

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 – The answer is going to be ‘All of above’.Though I wish it wasn’t.
Why?A one-stop-searching-destination is not going to work.
If you still [...]

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 [...]

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 must read for everyone interested the Online scene in India, especially guys from young start-ups.
Who is Vineet Buch?An IIT Kanpure [...]

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 [...]