Posts Tagged ‘ local search market ’

Sequoia Capital Invests $8.2mn in JustDial

July 23, 2009
Sequoia Capital Invests $8.2mn in JustDial

Sequoia Capital has invested $8.2mn (Rs. 40 crores) in Justdial, the local search engine firm. This is JustDial’s third round of funding – JustDial earlier raised funding from
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Burrp Launches Small Business Service – Receive Business Page Statistics, Activity..and more

June 8, 2009
Burrp Launches Small Business Service – Receive Business Page Statistics, Activity..and more

Burrp has launched small business service enabling business owners to respond to users reviews as well as manage their business pages by adding photos, videos, events, deals and announcements. Somewhat on the lines of Google’s freshly launched Business center dashboard, Burrp will
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Sulekha revamps it’s yellow page service– partners with Hungryzone, Burrp, Travelguru

May 20, 2009
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 new interface is a bold move, given that
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Navteq Launches Location Based Ads (Bring that to India)

May 19, 2009

Navteq has launched location based advertising (termed LocationPoint™) in European market that offers advertisers a unique distribution channel to push their ads based on customer’s location. Navteq LocationPoint is platform independent and can be utilized
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Y! India acquires 30% stake in Call Ezee, Voice Service

December 19, 2008
Y! India acquires 30% stake in Call Ezee, Voice Service

Local search market in India is hot and Y! India has now announced investment of 30% stake in Call Ezee, a directory search service. Call Ezee is a telephone directory search service currently covering 14 cities across India and will use the funding to increase the coverage of their offering. ..the partnership provides Yahoo Inc the...
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NCRHunt – Local search player for NCR Region

November 13, 2008
NCRHunt – Local search player for NCR Region

NCRHunt is a NCR based local search player and provides listings from various categories including hotels,pubs,restaurants,travel agents,retail shops,sports,doctors,automobiles etc. NCRhunt caters to lifestyle segment in
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askLaila testing click to call service (Google failed to implement in India)

November 5, 2008
askLaila testing click to call service (Google failed to implement in India)

Google failed to implement Click-to-call in India (advertisers weren’t pleased with the quality of service), and now askLaila is testing the service in it’s portal. The current testing is being done for restaurant query, Bangalore and is being tested upon one of the founder’s owned
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Google to integrate voice recognition in local search

September 21, 2008
Google to integrate voice recognition in local search

Google expanded it’s toll-free local search to Delhi region a few days back and as expected (and discussed), the company is planning to integrate voice recognition (in local languages) in it’s toll-free search. ..is in the process of automating the voice search service
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AskLaila powers MSN Cities

September 10, 2008
AskLaila powers MSN Cities

MSN India has partnered with AskLaila and MSN’s India site is hosting the asklaila portal as a microsite (city section) : http://msn.asklaila.com Unlike the regular partnerships (which is API based) , this is a pure microsite deal which is surely a big win for asklaila. Infact, the microsite looks more of asklaila and less of MSN...
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Google Expands Local Search (Voice) to Delhi

September 6, 2008
Google Expands Local Search (Voice) to Delhi

Google introduced toll free local search service for Hyderabad in April and has now launched the service in Delhi (via). If you are from Delhi/Hyderabad, do give this service a try (dial 1-800-41-999-999). Google ’s local search product does suffer from lack of depth in data, which also forced them to get into crowdsourcing for...
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Sulekha expands local search to 20 Tier II cities

August 29, 2008
Sulekha expands local search to 20 Tier II cities

Sulekha has expanded it’s local search service to 20 tier 2 cities including Jalandhar, Kanpur, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madurai, Nagpur, Surat, Trichy, Trivandrum, Vadodara etc. Sulekha has an interesting challenge with it’s ’search’ positioning – it is still perceived as a content + classified portal and even the city pages, look so damn cluttered to not...
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MetroMela launches SMS search

June 24, 2008
MetroMela launches SMS search

MetroMela has launched sms service enabling users to search via sms as well as receive deal alerts. MetroMe’la’s claimed difference is that they take care of common spelling mistakes in queries and can handle complex queries too , i.e. not just store names or category names, but more generic words. Using sms alert service, you can...
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MetroMela partners with Google for Local Search Content

June 16, 2008
MetroMela partners with Google for Local Search Content

MetroMela (read our review) has tied up with Google for content partnership – Google’s local search will feature MetroMela’s reviews, photos, business contact details and category information. Google has also partnered with Burrp, MyHotelVideo and TripAdvisor for displaying reviews from their site. Google’s local strategy is quite interesting
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asklaila launches mobile version of it’s local search product

May 19, 2008
asklaila launches mobile version of it’s local search product

asklaila has launched the mobile version of their local search product and the service can be accessed via sms as well as wap. To use the sms product, send your query to 58989, one can also set default city (so that you don’t have to add city name in the query text again and again)...
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Yahoo India Launches local search

April 30, 2008
Yahoo India Launches local search

Yahoo India has launched the local search engine (public beta launch) and as before, I won’t do a review (as I work for Y!). So, here is the link: http://local.yahoo.in and here is the plug: If you are reviewing/blogging about y! local, please linkback and I will feature the most informative-and-candid review here. The local search is...
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