Hi Sameer,

Thanks for you encouraging feedback. Scalability was a question we were worried about too. We expected less than 50 per cent chances of meeting the queries. First day (Dec 7 stats) stats, we met 62.25 per cent of all queries and as of now, we have met 53.01 per cent (Dec 8 stats). So, pretty much on target. Point taken on the local search bit, we will improve on it.

Hi Prashant, Rajat, Ashish,

It’s glorious to try to be Mahalo, and honestly, it never occurred to us that we would be taken for a human powered search. In fact, in our FAQs, we call ourselves the ‘new-age’ web directory – another glorious term, but we felt we were closer to it.

Manoj,

We didn’t find a barber in Bangalore that has a website ? but we did find “dry cleaners” in Mumbai & delhi. Anyways, I will convey your wishes to Google ? Worked for it, and I am still in awe of it.

Thanks Utkarsh,

Initially, we debated (in the ‘Gurgaon Mall?’) that we could sit making a great product for over a year, but wouldn’t know if there is a need, just like we wrote on “Idea Behind.” Instead, we thought, we could be reactive, and focus on what users want once we launch a basic framework. Human Powered, or not; you will find us as the most ‘reactive search engine’. We have set some highly optimistic targets on “Unmet Queries.” Hoping to met them.

Overall, I know, we have a search feel, but Antya is more about browse or (a grander term) discovery. We complement web search engines, rather than compete with them. That’s why we have something called, “Are You Looking For” on the results page. We are thinking of changing the ‘search’ tab to take a positioning away from “Search.” Any ideas besides “Go” or “Find”? Will look forward to your feedback on sunny at antya.com

Well, Antya > The end…is it apt….i don’t see good use of it until and unless i i search for a barber in Bangalore and to my surprise [holy Sh**] my barber also has website and he takes appointments, as rajat said 98% is Indian business is online, if you got to aggregate only website information apart from actually getting the data within it, you don’t have to be called as human search…..well, for me it would be good to accept the search results in a manner other local search engines are doing it, but how would Antya help me in sorting things for only people who have website and they run business?

Coming back to some technical feats, thye have awesomely integrated the Google search, and btw where did/do get there information on to there DB? it should either be crawling or manual feed, well I strongly believe rather than Antya making inroads, its Google which is making inroads by releasing the API and pampering others to use it to enter the local feeds, but its a good technical effort from the Antya team, appreciated

My best wishes Google

(maybe I got influenced by the fact that it’s funded by DesiMartini guy..), but honestly there ain’t any BIG reason to use this product.

“This is the ultimate way to “game” Google/Yahoo/etc. Create a page that highlights x person, get Mahalo up to a high page rank (.. and now traffic is sent to Mahalo instead of to the person/company web site. These type of web sites should not have a pagerank nor should be listed within the search engines.”

Do you think Antya is more than just a human powered search?

And somehow I am missing the local data – like the review says, search for pizza takes me to do pizza corner site which doesn’t really have any info at all.

They need to probbly find a mix of local as well as site data.
overall, a good effort and a good review!