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India userbase: Internet 100m, Mobile internet 40m

bgmahesh — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:31:23 +0000

If any organization can give an accurate, or almost accurate, statistics of internet users in India, it has to be Google. Every PC & mobile internet user uses Google, they could surely even categorize the demography of internet users in India.

American Customer Satisfaction Index: Facebook flops, Bing rocks

bgmahesh — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:03:39 +0000

This report was released little over a week ago “Facebook Flops in ACSI E-Business Report” says,

Facebook is the most popular site in the US, but users are not satisfied
On a scale of 100 the scores were: Myspace 63, Facebook 64, YouTube 73, Wikipedia 77

Options to keep your website Malware free

bgmahesh — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:13:00 +0000

At times I feel websites are human – they catch some sort of infection (flu) which needs to be attended to immediately, else your reputation (revenues) takes a beating.

We at Oneindia.in take steps to keep our site free of any such infections but at times we have failed (possibly only once so far). There are three services one could use to keep an eye on the health of the site,

Forget the brand/logo, which search engine works for you?

bgmahesh — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:42:31 +0000

Most of us would agree a ‘brand’ has an influence on the liking of a product. Ask anyone ‘Which search engine works for you the best?”, the obvious answer you expect to hear is ‘Google of course’.

Language Bookmarklets: Google gives a big push to Indian languages, yet again!

bgmahesh — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:40:14 +0000

According to the official Google India Blog,

We are happy to announce the launch of a new feature, Transliteration Bookmarklets, that will let you use transliteration on a website that does not support it currently. Transliteration Bookmarklets is a browser-based application that lets you type in your language in any text box on any website and gets added to your browser much like a regular bookmark.

This indeed is wonderful news for the Indian language community on the internet. Google India is the only search engine major which has recognized the opportunity in the Indian language space. They are addressing the needs of the majority (non-English speaking) in India. The Indic group based in India has been churning very good tools for language publishers like Oneindia.in.

‘Blame Google’ campaign in Print community hits Indian shores

bgmahesh — Fri, 08 May 2009 09:04:44 +0000

Print community in the US has been blaming Google for their downfall. Now this fever has hit the Indian shores.

Aroon Purie, chairman and editor-in-chief at The India Today Group, recently said they would not invest anymore in the digital space. I think they do see the importance of the internet, it is just that they will not invest anything ‘more’ in the digital space,

Newspapers, wire services, online publishers: It’s all war

bgmahesh — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:54:58 +0000

Publishers like AP etc etc are asking for a revenue share from Google, bloggers and aggregators. But then Google,bloggers could also come back and ask the publisher to share revenue from the traffic generated by them (Google). There is no end to this sharing business.

Wikia Search Shut

bgmahesh — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:34:44 +0000

According to Jimmy Wales blog, Wikia Search has shut on March 31, 2009. Wikia had raised funds from well known personalities and it was being promoted as ‘open source search’. It did not take off

Google Webmasters Tools Analyzer – Beta

bgmahesh — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:12:42 +0000

For those who use Google Webmasters Tools you may find Greynium’s “GWT Analyzer” useful. For webmasters the reports from GWT have been very useful but if the data you need to analyze is a lot. you would need some extra help.

Google India SearchMasters Conference – a good one

bgmahesh — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:58:27 +0000

I attended Google India SearchMasters 2009 at Google’s Bangalore office today. They had a tight program from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Items covered were

Webmaster Central and Best Practices (Adam Lasnik)