Recap 2008: Local Search Space

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,...
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RCom Launches Quick Search Service – Powered By Onyomo

Reliance Communication has announced the launch of ‘Quick Search’an information search service powered by OnYoMo.com on Reliance Mobile World(R World). We at WATBlog have always felt that onyomo’s...
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OnYoMo.com Gives Away Cash to WATBlog Readers – Now Another Reason to Keep Reading WATBlog

      Have you ever wanted to be the local reporter for your local radio station who always keeps the junta updated on the latest happenings around your city? Did the nearest pizza station...
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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...
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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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Online and Mobile Local Search spreading its wings – Onyomo, Burrp, Sulekha and Mkhoj in the race..

Local search has been a category which has seen tremendous traction and growth in terms of startups venturing into this space in the last one year. So its no surprise that even google launched its own...
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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...
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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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Deap Ubhi, Founder and CEO of Burrp … Lets it out on Burrp

  Burrp!, with its funky looking site, is a platform for anything and everything local. Here is a frank yet insightful interview with Deap Ubhi, Founder and Ceo of Burrp!, where he discusses everything...
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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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