Comments on: Ghoomo – Movie search for India

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By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:04:15 +0000

I agree with Mahesh’s analysis. I think that the domain name can be put to even better use.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:31:12 +0000

Hey Chetan
Brilliant find!!!!
Both the products are from the same company, but it’s interesting to note that they have the same listings.

Hmmmm…not too sure why Subodh is taking the pains of building two brands (with pretty much the same service)

By: goBroadband

goBroadband — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:17:57 +0000

It is VERTICAL ripped off by YouMagix.Com or probably pulling data from the same database.

Just quickly check out http://ahmedabad.ghoomo.com/ and

http://movies.youmagix.com/India/Gujarat/Ahmedabad/movie-cinema-theatres.php

I see both have the same listings

By: Raj

Raj — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:54:51 +0000

Haven’t really seen any wiki styled product work in India. Not too sure why ghoomo stands a chance. theur UI is simple, yet dirty (colors are too bad).

By: VIkas

VIkas — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:36:13 +0000

Too many ads – since this is newly launched, they can get away with few ads.

By: Mahesh

Mahesh — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:32:40 +0000

Some of my ideas for Ghoomo.
1. Include No. Of seats available, Click to Reserve Seats through one click Payment.
2. Get user mobile number, and intimate them about Seat availibility and New movie. Keep optional this feature.
3. The UI should StanOut. The site cluttered in Opera. As i tested on 3 popular browser IE, Ffx and Opera.
4. Try to avoid other city information. i.e if i am in bangalore i am looking ONLY bangalore Based Movies. This can be done using Some opensource IP2Location APIs. Just like the moment you loand on Netvibes, its shows Bangalore Temp automatically.
5. Include Short Video about Movie or Some Pics/Snaps.
6. The movement User land on Ghoomo, Its should show Latest Film, In his city with ranking short clip/pic, .
7. SMS based movie info is also Good feature.

If Ghoomo wants to stay with UGC, its better to use AMAZON Mturk to Crowdsource.

The UGC in india wont work, as of now, as most of ppl not aware of it. When ppl land on Ghoomo thier First Major concern is Getting Info about Movie but not to add content. As i ran test with my collegues for Ghoomo, the result was stupendous as my collegue ran this Query which is a new kannada movie and got Accurate Results but when they clicked on “Movie Detail” there were no content and they[my collegues] Straight a way closed the site and informed me about missing content. Its better to DIY crawling..

After all Its a Very CoolHot Product and Domain is incredible, shd get TradeMark