A review of local search players in India - Justdial, Metromela, AskLaila, OnYoMo, Yahoo and Burrp.
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Guruji, India focused search engine is launching Mobile ringtone search service.
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One of the earliest post of pluGGd.in was whether India needs a National Search Engine – and my argument was whether India focused search engine is really relevant and can it compete with Google/Yahoo of the world? Guruji, one of the earliest India focused search engine after trying out several products seems to have...
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Guruji has launched Finance portal (finance.guruji) that offers comprehensive information including stock prices and fundamentals on over 1000 listed Indian companies. The portal lets you search for company stocks as well as provide BSE/NSE top loser/gainer information, world market information (S&P/Down Jones etc). Do give Guruji finance a spin – do you think it’s a game...
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Guruji is now available on WAP/GPRS phone and the newly launched mobile app allows users to get local information like movie timings, restaurants, hotels, doctors and malls on their WAP/GPRS-enabled mobile phones. To use the app, visit www.guruji.com on your phone and get started. Also, Guruji has enabled Gujarati language search on...
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OnYoMo has launched it’s movie availability search service in all of the major metros (and you hear it here first). As the name indicates, one can search for movie timings/information as well as get the availability of movie tickets thru OnYoMo’s wap portal (http://owap.in), as well as web interface. Unlike the other...
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Think of an Indian search engine and the first name that comes to one’s mind is Guruji. Started by IIT D graduates, Guruji aims to be the ‘Google of India’! “Basically, the Guruji story is very different from the Google story. We are focused on being the preferred search destination for Indians, while Google is not… We...
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I had reviewed the local search engine market in India, and one of my biggest concern was that as an end user, Google is my de-facto search engine and I will never use 2 search engines for the same purpose. Unless and until the local...
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The Indian Internet Industry is buzzing with search engines. While the potential is huge, Indian SE companies have tough questions to answer – right from filtering what’s Indian vs. what’s not , to increasing the relevancy of the product. Here is a review of existing players in...
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