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We had earlier blogged about how the DTH platform had become a battle platform for the two leading matrimony players shaadi and bharatmatrimony who had tied up with two leading DTH players and announced their tie ups on the same day. I am not sure what’s cooking between Bharatmatrimony and Shaadi but they seem to [...]

It was just yesterday that we, at WATBlog, had been discussing the importance of being able to know the personal preferences of users, the kind of friends he has, the brand of shirt he wears, the kind of sports he plays, for a advertising network. It’s not for nothing that Google plans to collate all [...]

A few months back I wrote a post on how my friend uses Orkut to get in touch with women. That post was supposed to be taken in a lighter vein. Same concept applies.
 
So it turns out that the same friend of mine is now looking for someone for his sister – a prospective groom. Like [...]

A recent study by JuxtConsult reports 12 million users for Online Matrimony. There are a bunch of players in online matrimony covered in our matrimonial shootout last year. More statistics have been revealed in this report. Here are the statistics:

50% members of marriage portals live in the five metros.
79% of online matrimony surfers are well-qualified.
100 [...]

A search for the query ‘Marriage’ @ google.co.in would show the following un-paid results:
#1: Marriage - Wikipedia link
#2: WebMarriages.com - An international marriage site.
And there’s no Indian Matrimony classifieds site which features in the top 5. Perhaps they are yet to crack the might Google SEO puzzle.
So assuming the user is actually looking at [...]