Tag Archives: asklaila

09 Jul

TimesCity.com – Your Gudie To Food and Nightlife (Review)

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TimesCity.com - Your Gudie To Food and Nightlife (Review)

Rarely do I come across consumer portals from large media houses which are remarkable. Either there is a really bad design or most functions are just placer holder texts. TimesCity’s revamped look, launched few months back, surprised me. TimesCity.com is … Read More »

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20 Nov

asklaila launches Voice Search (Call Center Based)..Feasibility vs. Monetization

By sinha 3 Comments
asklaila launches Voice Search (Call Center Based)..Feasibility vs. Monetization

askLaila has launched Voice based search (yes!! voice based, i.e. call center driven) in Bangalore and plans to expand to other cities in near future. askLaila earlier tried voice recognition (did pilot/PoC with another startup) and while the company tried … Read More »

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09 Oct

News: Per second Billing Not Mandatory, BBC’s FM Radio Shop..and more

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Roundup of latest news for today – TRAI has announced that per-second billing is not mandatory. MTS has launched it’s mobile service in NCR region and is offering per-second billing. Govt has blocked Etisalat-Allianz merger deal. Read More »

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10 Sep

The Local Search Business in India – Traffic Check

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The Local Search Business in India – Traffic Check

A review of local search players in India – Justdial, Metromela, AskLaila, OnYoMo, Yahoo and Burrp. Read More »

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04 Jun

Your Questions to askLaila Founders

By sinha 9 Comments
Your Questions to askLaila Founders

askLaila is one of the few startups who have managed to build a balance between speed and perfection – they have mainly grown by WoM (i.e. word of mouth) and have pretty much defined the distribution strategy for other local … Read More »

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02 Jun

Traffic Stats of Indian Local Search Services – Who is Heading North?

By sinha 11 Comments
Traffic Stats of Indian Local Search Services – Who is Heading North?

We profiled the relative traffic of top local search services in India in the month of September 2008 and it’s time to revisit the metrics again. Based on Comscore data (one of the top Confusions in Digital Media measurement), we … Read More »

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27 May

askLaila introduces Chat bots for IM clients – Yahoo Messenger and GTalk

By sinha 3 Comments

asklaila has launched chat bots for Yahoo messenger and GTalk enabling users to conduct search for local businesses as well as movies and events on their IM client. Read More »

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20 May

Sulekha revamps it’s yellow page service– partners with Hungryzone, Burrp, Travelguru

By sinha 2 Comments
Sulekha revamps it’s yellow page service– partners with Hungryzone, Burrp, Travelguru

Sulekha has revamped it’s yellowpages service and apart from sprucing up the entire UI, Sulekha has partnered with companies like NeedGrub, HungryZone and Foodiebay for restaurant reviews; burrp for events and TravelGuru for hotel reviews. First thing first – the … Read More »

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06 Feb

Google integrates Voice Recognition in Local Search

By sinha 5 Comments

Google has integrated voice recognition (our earlier coverage) to local search service and has expanded to 4 cities – Delhi/Bangalore/Mumbai and Hyderabad. The service (call 1-800-41-999-999) lets you search for local information as well as movie timings – and as … Read More »

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