Comments on: ‘Local Search’ Market in India – How Big or Small & Viable Is It?

By: vicky

vicky — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:45:58 +0000

one more fastest growing local search engine is into market www.antaonline.com with coverage in 35+ cities in less than 4 months and also a 1,50,000+ visitors per month.....

By: John Wood

John Wood — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:51:04 +0000

If you are interested in local business listings, then have a look at Brownbook.net. I believe it's the only local directory that is also global as it includes 240 countries. So far, it's only been marketed in the US, UK, Canada and Australia so it's something SMEs in India can really take advantage of. You can enhance your listing with rich media all for free, and its listings perform really well in Google. http://www.brownbook.net

By: Ram

Ram — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:41:21 +0000

hi sampad

Interesting write up. I asa co founder of findnearyou.com have been fascinated with humungous potential of the local search market and firmaly believe that the actual success story page has not been written yet. When you abandon the luxury of global generic search -with smart or fancy algorithsm and drill down local the world as seen by alice is very different. Technology can access available outdated databases without proper indexing or mapping and produce uninteresting -sometimesuseful but mostly boring results. Local is a combination of people, time, location and interests and only hybrid models can survive the need for real time results

By: @Sampad

@Sampad — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:48:41 +0000

Congrats on that. So what's in store for us all?

BTW I thought BigMaps.com is out in the market. So when r u guys launching it?

By: ritesh ambastha

ritesh ambastha — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:40:43 +0000

One more competition is evolving in India : http://www.twitter.com/bigmaps

By: mayur

mayur — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:15:58 +0000

visit http://marketing26.blogspot.com/ for more info.

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Fulfillment: the last mile in India Local Search? — Bhatnaturally Bhatnaturally — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:54:56 +0000

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By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:09:05 +0000

In truth, immediately i didn’t understand the essence. But after re-reading all at once became clear.

By: Sampad Swain

Sampad Swain — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:37:02 +0000

Thanks Girish. As you pointed out, its true that there are some quite interesting comments but as I see it, its mostly skeptical nonetheless!

By: Girish

Girish — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:57:44 +0000

Very insightful article Sampad. While reading your article, I also went through Alootechie's article and found out rather interesting comments on them. May be you might want to check that out too.