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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 mobile search services which was earlier owap.in and is now accessible from m.onyomo.com is one of the best in local search on mobile so its no surprise [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 local search service recently.
Lets see who all are doing what on the mobile and online local search space.
Onyomo [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 from the thought behind Burrp! the name to the Impact of localization of content on the Indian internet space.
 
Q) Burrp – [...]

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 [...]