Comments on: Indian Content Portals in 2009 – Flat Traffic growth [Approaching Dead End?]

By: Sampad Swain

Sampad Swain — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:51:35 +0000

I wasn’t comparing here. Point was the advent of newer platform or more specifically how lackluster our innovation in internet space have been. Content portals are easy and safest bet in Indian context. But still we are yet to see any innovation on plain content platforms too.

@Sampad

By: Kiran

Kiran — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:04:04 +0000

I think it is unfair to compare a indiatimes/sify/rediff to a facebook/twitter – two different USPs. Indiatimes/sify/rediff are news aggregator sites rather than anything else. They are not app-creators/product creators.

A fair comparison would be to compare a indiatimes to a cnn/bbc/any other news aggregator and compare the percentage of growth year on year.

That said, what we do not currently have are sector-specific news aggregators like Bloomberg/Zerohedge and that is a definite concern!

By: Sampad Swain

Sampad Swain — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:59:14 +0000

That’s a good find Ashish. That was hanging for a long long time. If you think in the last 3-4 years, what developed countries have produced vis-a-vis us, then that also paints a nice little picture. We saw Facebook, Twitter and host of other services emerge while Indian major content portals still adding less than zero value everyday and western counterparts like Google came and started doing their bit in Indian market too.

And still these big indigenous bullies do not get it.

@Sampad