Okay. It seems that the Hyderbadis (& Secunderabadi) have another great choice for online local search. Apart from JustDial, Sulekha, AskLaila and GreenMango, which we recently reviewed, there is http://fullhyd.com too which comes with the ‘surprise of the underdog’ to us.
Full Hyderabad (aka FullHyd) as its name claims pretty much covers everything about the twin cities. The ‘IIT-IIM’ founder Kishore Kadiyala, has bootstrapped the search portal and seems to have, as he puts it, ‘average 15 parameters of information’ for every visitor. An interesting concept with significant effort from founder.
Even though the portal does seem to contain great value, I failed to understand why so little emphasis on the look & feel of the website? For example, why not using Google maps (or even Bing or Yahoo) to provide select ‘my location’ within Hyderabad? Or even show local distances appropriately instead of presenting simple tables of text-on-a-page info with loads of ads and fads?
My belief is that online experience along with crisp information is a crucial differentiator if one is looking at increasing returning visitors & positive word-of-mouth. Overall, the feedback is that the current interface leaves a lot to ask for and you guys need to convincingly adopt a layout which leverages great information with seamless experience.
Calling all to check out on Hyderabad through Full Hyderabad!
Link at the bottom of the article has a typo.Should be fullhyd.com instead of fullhyde.com.
Krishna
Hey thanx!! Corrected…:-)
If I know correctly, this is a decade old portal with decent traction. Why is this being reviewed now?
hey venkat, its never too late you see…:) And the traction-without-much-of-PR makes it them an even stronger case to consider, right?
According to me the major lacking feature of fullhyd is not their interface but their search. Go to their site and search for something and u will know why am I saying so.They don’t have a good location based search. That is the big reason why I don’t go to fullhyd.com when I need some info. I only use Google to go to page on fullhyd. In contrast, Just Dial, AskLaila etc., have a great search. And most of the times, the entries in Google we get frm these sites are the srch result pages.
@Venkat I think they thought better late than never. As they r only a team of 6 Kishore’s team lacks in getting good PR
Yes, in terms of look and feel fullhyd might not be the best, but the content the site has is pretty good – far better than any other online local search.
hey Kishore,
hope you remember me, this is Bulu Pattanaik from fullorissa.com … long time back we had a talk..
why dont you change the look n feel of the site.. other then this I feel everything is just ok at fullhyd…
chalo all the best.
thanks