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Google Launches Voice Based Local Info Search In Hyderabad - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 04 Apr 2008 07:01 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has reportedly launched a voice based local information service in India, in Hyderabad. Syed Abbas writes (via Labnol) that the service, launched on the number 1800-41-99-99-99 is…

Guruji Launches Gujarati Search And Mobile App - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 26 Feb 2008 05:41 AM PST

[by Cerius Shah] Guruji, the Sandstone Capital and Sequoia Capital funded search engine, has added Gujarati to its supported language searches, and also launched a WAP application (screencap) for enabled…

ByIndia.com Goes Up For Sale On Ebay; SaffronConnect Shuts Down? - 7 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 20 Feb 2008 09:46 PM PST

It’s Buy ByIndia or Bye ByIndia...the site which was acquired by Web2Corp in August 2006 is on the block, up for sale on ebay, here. Is this India’s first portal…

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Reliance Partners With Yahoo oneSearch - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 14 Jan 2008 03:28 PM PST

[by Cerius Shah] The marriage season continues. Airtel goes with Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) with MSN and now Reliance has tied the application knot with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO).…

JustDial Launches SMS Service - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 14 Nov 2007 05:39 AM PST

We’d been told in the comments to this post that JustDial, a local search company, is in the process of launching an SMS service; apparently, there was a delay because…

Guruji To Receive Under $10 Million In Funding From Sandstone Capital? - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 13 Nov 2007 05:07 AM PST

More financial firepower for Guruji: the local search engine is reported to have received less than $10 million in funding from Sandstone Capital. Gujuji Co-founder and CEO Anurag Dod has…

Yahoo Extends OneSearch To Aircel, BPL And BSNL In India - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 13 Nov 2007 01:52 AM PST

At the Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has announced that it has tied up with 9 new mobile operators for its OneSearch service; this takes Yahoo’s OneSearch…

Bharti Airtel May Partner With Google On Phone Software - 4 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 03 Nov 2007 12:09 AM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is expected to announce its Open Handset Alliance and Linux-based mobile software on Monday next week, and some reports that in India, Bharti Airtel is set to…

Pinstorm Looks To Raise Money To Fund Global Acquisitions; - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 08 Oct 2007 10:10 PM PST

While advertising bigwigs like Euro RSCG and Publicis are scouting for digital acquisitions in India, search marketing company Pinstorm intends to raise money to fund international acquisitions. These acquisitions, says…

Four Interactive Gets $10 Million In Second Round Funding From Lightspeed, SVB and Matrix Partners - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 27 Sep 2007 05:07 AM PST

Four Interactive, a Bangalore-based online local search company has received $10 million in second round of funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Silicon Valley Bank and Matrix Partners India, reports VCCircle.…

Google Launches Local Search For India - 25 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 20 Aug 2007 01:25 AM PST

You’re reading this here first: Google has launched a local search engine for India: Google Local. The site is currently in beta, and at http://local.google.co.in/. At the same time, http://local.google.com…

Google Labs Releases Gadgets For Search In 14 Indic Languages - 4 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 16 Aug 2007 09:32 AM PST

Google Labs India has released keyboards that allow searching in several Indic languages, including Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tamil and Telugu, writes…

JustDial Goes Mobile With WAP Site; No SMS Service? - 11 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 16 Aug 2007 04:27 AM PST

Local information search company JustDial has gone mobile with a WAP site - wap.justdial.com. I’m surprised that they didn’t launch SMS services, and hence gain access to a larger mobile…

Matrix Partners Funded Four Interactive Launches Local Search - Laila - 11 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 05 Aug 2007 10:35 PM PST

Four Interactive, the startup funded by Matrix Partners has launched a local search engine called Laila, which also allows users to review content. So far the content is limited to…

Yahoo and Google In Mobile India - The Battle Continues - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 24 Jul 2007 07:01 PM PST

Last month, agencyfaqs.com reported Yahoo is probably zooming ahead of Google in the Indian mobile race. Now obviously, Google doesn’t seem to be sitting tight. The world’s largest Internet company…

Webdunia Launches In Five More Indian Languages - 4 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 24 Jun 2007 11:10 PM PST

Webdunia, a portal with channels such as Bollywood, lifestyle, religion, science, IT, career, astrology, literature, etc, is making its content available in 5 more languages—Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada and Punjabi,…

Yahoo Racing Ahead of Google in Asia’s Mobile Race? - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 24 Jun 2007 10:49 PM PST

Yahoo! seems to be racing ahead of Google with its Mobile plans for Asia, according to this agencyfaqs.com article. After launching the latest version of its mobile application, Yahoo! Go…

Nokia To Launch Infomedia Powered Localized Search In Q3 2007 - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 21 Jun 2007 11:08 AM PST

Nokia is expanding its mobile search offering to include local search, which will be launched during the third quarter of 2007. Among the content providers for local search is Infomedia…

MIH Working On Contextual Search; And On Bloggers Needing Evangelizing - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 21 Jun 2007 04:44 AM PST

Ashish Kashyap justifies MIH’s strategy of doling out Rs. 1.5 crores with a rather flimsy “blogs in India needed some evangelizing” reasoning [via Agencyfaqs] Blogs have been thriving in India…

Rediff Expands Mobile Search To Include Caller Ringback Tones - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 14 Jun 2007 03:08 AM PST

Well, it’s about time this happened - caller ring-back tones (CRBT) account for a fairly large portion of music sold on the mobile and so Rediff has expanded its mobile…

Google And Yahoo In Talks With NIC For Search Services - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 05 Jun 2007 07:19 PM PST

The National Informatics Centre (NIC), which hosts a large number of government data, is in talks with Google and Yahoo for providing search across 5000 NIC websites reports Economic Times.…

ZDNet India’s Job Search Engine Powered By Recruit.net; And Why Naukri Had Sued Bixee… - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 30 May 2007 08:43 PM PST

ZDNet India is launching a technology jobs search engine. The site isn’t linked to yet from the main page, but is live, here. The jobs search has been powered by…

Govt sets up site, centers for NRI investment queries - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Mon 28 May 2007 10:11 PM PST

So here’s a chance for non-resident Indians to deal with mouse-clicking rather than paper-pushing babus. The Times of India reports that the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs in association with…

Guruji.com Launches Tamil Search, Plans Mobile Searches Too - 5 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 23 May 2007 10:14 PM PST

Search engine Guruji.com will now allow searches in Tamil on its Web site and has plans to add Malayalam to its roster of Hindi, Telegu and Kannada searches, the Hindu…

Yahoo Beefs Up Mobile Search, Extends Reach of OneSearch To India And 13 Other Countries - 0 Comments
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Tue 15 May 2007 03:24 AM PST

The official release hasn’t been posted yet, but an email tip reveals that Yahoo has launched a beta of its oneSearch mobile search offer in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,…