Comments on: Accel India Invests in Flipkart

By: undisclosed

undisclosed — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:36:35 +0000

From where Flipkart people get initial data of books for their ecommerce website and how ??

By: Nitin

Nitin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:04:53 +0000

“flipkart is a cheater company, i looked up “childrens book” in google and landed on sex book listed at flipkart”

Dude, there are quite a few books on flipkart with names like “Porn for New Mom/Bride” etc etc. and if you would search for then online you will see that these books actually exist!!
So i don’t see any point in judging a website just because it has a diverse catalogue.

And there is a healthy possibility that you may land up on some sex book while searching for “Children’s Book” as the engine would possibly track the root cause of children..!!

Cheers!!

By: Mekin

Mekin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:19:59 +0000

Here is what keywordspy has to say about pluggd.in:

http://www.keywordspy.com/research/search.aspx?q=pluggd.in

I would rather place my trust in better know analytics providers like:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/flipkart.com#keywords

By: arvind

arvind — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:27:49 +0000

hmmm. That’s interesting.

By: Narayan S.

Narayan S. — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:07:47 +0000

surprised that accell is funding companies that drive traffic using “adult” keywords on their site to get customers from search engines and call it good SEO? it is just unethical and shameful. several URL tracks keywords driving traffic:

http://www.keywordspy.com/research/search.aspx?q=flipkart.com&tab=domain-overview

flipkart is a cheater company, i looked up “childrens book” in google and landed on sex book listed at flipkart. flipkart places children keywords in adult books listed on their site which is pathetic SEO. sorry if it is not obvious, such people should be behind bars.

By: Narayan S.

Narayan S. — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:54:38 +0000

i am surprised that VCs in India are funding unethical companies who get traffic by placing porn and sex keywords to get traffic and claim it is innovative. shame on companies like flipkart that take shortcuts. check this site that tracks keywords driving customers…you will see only sex related words:

http://www.keywordspy.com/research/search.aspx?q=flipkart.com&tab=domain-overview

it is not important if you are big or small. it matters how you get there. i would not buy anything from such a site.

By: BigThumbsUp

BigThumbsUp — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:24:52 +0000

Flipkart rocks! Wish them the very best. Hope they will use the funding to improve content and classification of books. Recommendation engine is needed too. But, these guys are simply the best in India by long shot. More power to them.

By: Sudhir Shekar

Sudhir Shekar — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:53:46 +0000

This is good news. Flipkart.com and Indiaplaza.in are the best Indian ecommerce sites and hopefully they will grow the industry which is still quite small.

By: Harsha M V

Harsha M V — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:54:31 +0000

Congrats guys. wonder how much of funding they got ?

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:27:15 +0000

These guys rock !! ..literally..

There is much more to the site than just meets the eye..lots of SEO stuff (as Ashish pointed out)..cleanest url structure I have seen till date by any Indian site..usability and page load time (they have done everything to keep pages flying..look at their stats in YSlow and PageSpeed..awesome stuff !!)

I recently ordered a book from these guys..sometime in the evening around 5, and I got it the next morning !! Although it was a local delivery only, yet it shows that these guys have given a lot of stress on operations, which is again the first time that I am coming across at any Indian e-commerce store.

Nice work guys..hope you carry your work forward and set an example for other e-commerce janta ..