I must say that it is a cool idea- having a serch engine focused on Indian related websites. Guess what! This blog has already got one visitor today after being redirected from Guruji.com search. However, the search engine is still in its infancy and hopefully as it grows websites and blogs related to India will get more visitors. For the users, it will also provide relevant searches.
DNA India wrote:
“Two Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi graduates have returned from the Silicon Valley to launch a home-grown search engine with loads of Indian content.
In a bid to offer an alternative search engine and wean away the growing community of Internet buffs from established search engines like Google and Yahoo! Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra have co-founded www.guruji.com with a $7-million (Rs.322 million) seed fund from Sequoia Capital India, a venture capital firm.
Touted to be the first of its kind search engine in the subcontinent, guruji.com aims to provide better search results to Indian users, by leveraging proprietary algorithms and data in the Indian context.”
If this search engine can provide more relevant results about Indian keywords than Google and Yahoo then it will become a big business. Internet penetration is increasing very fast in India. As for the time being, I am happy for getting my fast visitor from Guruji.
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Now you have at least two visitors from there counting me. ;-) My site is registered with them too and I've had one visitor from there as well.
Posted by: Simran | October 14, 2006 5:25 AM | Permalink to Comment