Comments on: Has Guruji Found it’s Mojo?

By: anoncow

anoncow — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:13:49 +0000

It’s its, not it’s.

By: Vibhas K Dhingra

Vibhas K Dhingra — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 05:20:00 +0000

Pretty pertinent test for an search engine that has Indianess as its distinguishing point. Maybe like a traditional guru, it is discounting references to a heroine over that of a hurricane:) On a more serious note, got to know of another search engine, http://www.yauba.co.in/, which gave promising results. Guess you can put this to the test and tell the community if this is any good. Did a simple test,( go here http://eklavyatechnologies.blogspot.com/search/label/Web%202.0) and found search results to be accurate.

By: vicky

vicky — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:34:53 +0000

Here is another music search engine http://www.sanidapa.com, which crawls thrid party music web sites and display the search results. You can search and play the songs in English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Assamese and more languages.

Its a good site for music lovers.

Have a great time.

By: Utkarsh

Utkarsh — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:35:18 +0000

Phulki is the Indian version of ‘RADIO.BLOG.CLUB’ @ http://radioblogclub.com

Only thing is they’ll have to look out on copyright issues, as RBC was blocked for the same. Lets see.

By: Kishore

Kishore — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:34:01 +0000

I too use Phulki a lot. Its a cool website with very neat user interface. Also it has many more features than Guruji.

By: Lalit

Lalit — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:33:20 +0000

Phulki is great !!! I use it regularly .. and imaging that we are discussing Phulki on the post meant to be abt Guruji … we rest our case ….

By: Indus Khaitan

Indus Khaitan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:13:40 +0000

(Disclaimer: This rant does not discount all the hard work put in by Guruji’s team. They’re stellar, able and backed by seasoned people).

I could seldom find a reason to switch to Guruji, more than that, it was google which rescued me when I was looking for specifics in India.

Moreover, I seriously suspect that their algorithms gives higher weights to pages containing Indian content.

Here’s a most glaring example:

1. Type Katrina on Google (a) on “Pages from India” every result is of the bollywood lass. (b) on “the pages from Web” only one result is about Hurricane Katrina

2. Now, try the same on Guruji. You would expect that it would mimic Google or do better for “Pages from India”. Try it out. The first result is from Hurricane Katrina.

Amma yaar, agar Katrina ko upar nahee dikha paye to ab baaki kya bacha!!

Jokes apart, IMO, any search engine which wants to outdo Google has to stop thinking like Google and stay away from Google’s facets/paradigms/indentation/metaphor/UI design of it’s SERPs.

Would love to dive more here or on twitter @1ndus

By: Ravi

Ravi — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:29:40 +0000

Yeah.. But, its difficult to justify the funding for this…

By: Ashish

Ashish — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:10:52 +0000

Oh yeah: we profiled them when they launched : http://www.pluggd.in/online-music-discovery/meta-aggregator-indian-music-sites-phulki-1984/

By: Ravi

Ravi — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:54:31 +0000

Ashish, talking about music search – just discovered this site, http://www.phulki.com – really nice interfact that could possibly give Guruji a run for their money..