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1087 days ago sinha

Traffic Stats of Indian Local Search Services – Who is Heading North?

We profiled the relative traffic of top local search services in India in the month of September 2008 and it’s time to revisit the metrics again. Based on Comscore data (one of the top Confusions in Digital Media measurement), Read More →

askLaila introduces Chat bots for IM clients – Yahoo Messenger and GTalk

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1093 days ago sinha

askLaila introduces Chat bots for IM clients – Yahoo Messenger and GTalk

askLaila has been on a distribution spree for last few months – for instance their Airtel partnership enabled them to be present on SMS search, DTH as well as Airtel Live and they almost ‘hijacked’ MSN Cities portal etc. And Read More →

Navteq Launches India Map – We Take it for a Ride (come fly with us)

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1100 days ago sinha

Navteq Launches India Map – We Take it for a Ride (come fly with us)

Navteq has launched map service in India (link) and the map integrates local search as well as direction route (traffic data is available only for US). Navteq offers PoIs (i.e. Point of Interests, e.g. Hotels/Restaurants/Car service/Parking etc) along Read More →

Sulekha revamps it’s yellow page service– partners with Hungryzone, Burrp, Travelguru

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1100 days ago sinha

Sulekha revamps it’s yellow page service– partners with Hungryzone, Burrp, Travelguru

Sulekha has revamped it’s yellowpages service and apart from sprucing up the entire UI, Sulekha has partnered with companies like NeedGrub, HungryZone and Foodiebay for restaurant reviews; burrp for events and TravelGuru for hotel reviews. First thing first Read More →

Google integrates Voice Recognition in Local Search

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1203 days ago sinha

Google integrates Voice Recognition in Local Search

Google has integrated voice recognition (our earlier coverage) to local search service and has expanded to 4 cities - Delhi/Bangalore/Mumbai and Hyderabad. The service (call 1-800-41-999-999) lets you search for local information as well as movie timings Read More →