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Google is the largest
online search engine for webpages in the world with billions of page
views per day. It was created to organize all the world’s
information and make them universally accessible. The engine runs on
a software tool that ranks webpages according to importance by
solving an equation of 500 million variables and 5 billion terms.
Any query into the engine is sent to an index server, which tells
which pages contain the words of the query. After which the query is
transported to a doc server, which contains all the needed
documents. It also includes hypertext marking, when giving weightage
to webpages, by analyzing the content on every webpage in fonts and
the exact position of the terms. The results of any search are
returned to the user in a fraction of a second. |
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| MSN |
The portal that
revolutionized mailing worldwide by launching the world’s first
free web-based emailing services-Hotmail. The most widely used
feature is the MSN instant chat messenger. In India too, it is one
of the fastest popularity-gaining portal backed by MSN’s own
search engine and links to various features (like free-web) of MSN.
MSN has tied-up with reputed content providers in India for news and
entertainment together with other popular categories like MSN today,
downloads, dating, computing and photo features among others. |
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| Naukri.com |
| It is one of the largest job seeking and careers sites in India with estimated page views crossing 2.5 million per day. The number of registered users is over 7 lakh while the number of online recruiters is close to 6000. The site is resourceful for jobs, careers, and employment. One can store one’s CV on the site or display them for view, or even send it to placement consultants, software companies, and international recruiters listed on the site. Another feature of the site helps one in writing résumés, with the aid of an online Résumé Manager. The ‘hot jobs’ section lists jobs in the leading companies. Potential recruiters can look up employees that fit their bill with a résumé search or vacancy posting. |
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| Rediff |
| Rediff was started in 1996 and was listed at Nasdaq (REDF) two years back. It is today one of the most popular portals among the Indian and global Indian communities. Its latest additions have been the Rediff mobile, Rediff calendar, Rediff bol instant messenger, and Broadband. Today Rediff has earnings of over $64 million with monthly hits exceeding 90 million. The popularity of Rediff began with its free web-based e-mail service offering and its speed as compared to other email services. There is comprehensive information on business, politics, sports, and Infotech in three regional languages besides English. The portal had also launched the Rediff US Edition for the Indian community in the United States and Canada. A useful feature for cricket lovers is a downloadable ‘scoreboard’. |
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| Yahoo! India |
| Yahoo is among the most widely visited even within India, specifically because of free web-based and secure email services and chat messenger. The site is comprehensive and provides Internet content, whether it’s checking the latest cricket scores, sending e-mail or instant messages to friends and family, managing personal contacts and schedules, or even checking stock holdings in local and global stock markets. Yahoo! India features a directory of Web sites organized by a team of Web surfers into 14 easy-to-use categories. The site has featured links to shaadi.com and travel by Thomas Cook. |
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| Contest2Win |
Started in 1998 the site already had over 812,000 registered users from India. The number of page views everyday run close to 500,000 pages that are sponsored by several brand owners for the contests played. Today it is one of the largest running contesting sites in India, in terms of the number of players. Contest2Win sources the prizes and delivers them to winners through its logistics office in Mumbai. In India c2w has so far given away prizes worth more than Rs 1.5
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| Indiatimes |
| Indiatimes is a good site and most often frequented for India specific news and information. The site is also popular among chat users for its Instant messenger and email account offerings. The main page of the site displays links to numerous and very diverse categories of information. The site features 10MB space of free email and is often pitched as India’s answer to International portals like Yahoo and MSN. Another very frequented section of the site is Astrospeak. |
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| IndiaFM |
| This site is popular for music downloads with the number of page views per day exceeding 13 lakh. It covers information pertaining to Bollywood and entertainment, trouncing even some of the top Indian portals. Infact IndiaFM is the only portal to have made it to the top 20 of the AC Nielsen listings of websites. Number of newsletter subscribers are 45,000 excluding validated subscribers. Here video clippings of movies, music, and other video clips are available. Indiatimes has selected IndiaFM for providing them entertainment content for their site. It promotes movies and music. People in the age group between 19 to 24 constitute the most frequently visited viewers. Interestingly half of the site viewers are mainly from the US and Canada. |
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| CIOL |
| It caters to specific information requirements of software developers, enterprise and home users, and different IT industry communities. Currently it has a registered readership base of 4,00,000, both from India and abroad, with a newsletter subscriber base of 3.5 lakh. The site generates four million pageviews per month across ten channels of various IT communities. The portal is most popular among job seekers and employers within the IT community. The site lists jobs both within India and abroad. With an experience of more than 20 years in the field of IT journalism ciol.com is able to provide the most comprehensive news, events, implementation guide, resources and tutorials for developers etc within the country. The site covers all content related to software, telecom, and hardware from publications like Dataquest, Voice and Data, PC Quest, Computers @ Home and DQ Week. |
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| ZDNet |
| ZDNet is another popular resource portal for information on technology in India and abroad. It is designed for those who want to buy, use, and learn about technology. In India it has its office in New Bombay. Jasubhai Interactive Media and ZDNet together represent ZDNet India. Based in San Francisco, ZDNet offers content to IT professionals, families, and gamers. It’s content is available in 21 countries, with information published in 14 languages. |
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| Baazee |
| Baazee.com is a person-to-person trading community on the Internet where anyone can sell or buy almost anything. It was started in the year 2000, and today it has over 1.3 million registered users with items in categories of computers and IT peripherals, mobile phones, books, and magazines to games and travel items. This online market place is free of middlemen and unconstrained by geographical boundaries. All items are placed under 15 different categories so that they can be accessed conveniently. Headquartered at Mumbai, baazee.com has 4 network offices in India. |
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| 123India |
| Another site popular within the Indian community as it provides a host of services like news, finance and stock quotes, radio, chat, cartoons, contests, cards, horoscopes, matrimonial, e-mail, movies, and weather. It gives a comprehensive directory search as far as India-specific information is concerned. The mail service provides 10-MB space for storing mails. However the chat messenger is one of the major attractions to the site. There is a business and finance channel giving regular updates on stock market indices and share prices. |
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| Sify |
| The site was popularized with the launch of India’s first private Internet Service Provider- Satyam Infoway. Initially, most viewers were the ISP’s subscribers. In addition to information on its Internet services, the site gave information on news, astrology, and travel among others. The site has links to Bharatmatrimony.com and has inline forums for CAT aspirants and market alerts. The site also has an online retailing section, Sifymall, which offers a range of products and services. This ecommerce site is built on a software platform called BroadVision (BV) and hosts online stores for Reebok, Nestle, and Funskool. |
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| CyberAstro |
| It is one the most widely used site for destiny forecasts. The number of hits per day is 139,953 and 7,246 registered user sessions. The number of pageviews in a single day exceeds 30,000. Users can get reports using the principals of Vedas, numerology, I Chang and a host of other methodologies. The users span the globe and across cultures, including people from countries like China and Singapore. The site offers both paid and non-paid services. There are instant reports on gem recommendations, personal oracle and passions profile among others. Most recently cyberastro.com held the first web casted live prayer offering to its premium registered users all over the world. |
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