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The 3 Most Popular Websites of India

navid — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:55:53 +0000

In terms of population using Internet, India ranks 2^nd globally ranked right after China. Being one of the most populous Internet user countries, India is undoubtedly a booming market for the Internet marketers. Here’s a list of top 3 sites according to the visits that they fetch:

1) www.google.co.in: The Indian site for Google.com is without a doubt the top website of India. The most updated technology of search engine is being used by Google enabling it to find the latest information within micro-seconds. Visiting Google India it is possible on the visitors part you to the search web in different languages like Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, and Bangla etc. The main international version of the site i.e. www.google.com is ranked right after www.google.co.in

2) www. facebook.com: The most popular networking site of the world ranks 3^rd next to Google (Indian and International version). Millions of surfer’s all across India use Facebook as a tool to connect with their friends and family. Creating profile’s, uploading photos, videos and sharing them with family and friends has become a new trend. In addition spending hours on Facebook playing addictive fb games and taking fb apps has also turned out to be one the favorite past times of many in India.

3) www. yahoo.com: Of the entire top visited sites in India, Yahoo! Ranks 4^th after Google (Indian and International version). With its diverse features like Yahoo! Mail, yahoo chat rooms, search engine, yahoo news etc. it has taken the spot for one of the most popular sites of India for multifarious reasons. Starting from travelling, shopping you can even find out your local weather using Yahoo! Sites compelling visitors to get glued to it.

Visitor wise and in popularity scale, these three sites are the most popular sites of India.

Indian Publishers move to Court against Google

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:33:44 +0000

A group of Indian Publishers have moved to Newyork district Court against Google Book Settlement’s (GBS 2.0) and filed allegation of copyright violation against Internet Gaint.

Siddharth Arya, the legal counsel for IRRO(The Indian Reprographic Rights Organisation ) said ” Google has scanned millions of books of Indian authors without taking any kind of permission from the author which is a clearattempt to turn copyright law on its head,”

The IRRO is an organisation owned by authors and publishers which include Star Publications Pvt. Ltd., Abhinav Publications, Daya Publication House and Pustak Mahal.

This is the first group of India Publishers who moved to court against Google Book project. Although, many author unions all over the world are raising their voices against Google Project.

Google has scanned millions on books till now Under the initiative, known as the Google Library Project. According to this project if a person is silent, he is deemed to have consented to an agreement.

Angered by Google’s action, the Authors’ Guild (AG) and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) slapped Google with a suit alleging copyright infringement.

Google India Internet Bus Reached Jaipur

admin — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:04:15 +0000

Google India Internet Bus has reached Jaipur today. The Google Internet Bus Project is to educate the people in villages and far flung areas about the Internet and how they can use it to make their lives easier.

The Bus has covered villages of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh, before starting its journey in Rajasthan yesterday. The bus would remain in Rajasthan for 30 days and would cover 10 cities in Rajasthan – Jaipur, Kota, Ajmer, Beawer, Bhilwara, Udaipur, Pali, Jodhpur, Bikaner and Sikar.

The bus is equipped with High Plasma monitors and 24 hours internet connectivity and have informative content in both English and Hindi for users.

“The year 2009 has been a great journey for the Google Internet Bus. Having covered five states we touched the lives of over 460,000 people and showcased the benefit of internet and how it can revolutionize daily lives,” said Prasad Ram, head ,Google R&D, India.

Google May Stop Its Operations in China

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:43:12 +0000

Internet Giant Google has created a buzz by making an announcement, that it could quit China after hackers broke in to Google China and tried to access the email accounts of Human Right Activists of China.

China is the biggest Internet Market in the world with more that 350 million users and search revenue of more than $1 billion. China is one of those marketing where Google is not the leading search engine. Google only have 30% market share of search engine market in china whereas its main competitor Baidu has 60% of market share.

Google announcement comes after the meeting between representatives of Internet Giants like Google, Twitter, Microsoft and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Hilary Clinton is set to announce the new technical policy of United states next week to help citizens around the world have access to an uncensored Web.

Anyone doing business in China must adhere to strict Chinese Censorship rules that ban discussion or display of pages on sensitive topics ranging from Tibetan independence to the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement. All companies like Google, Baidu and Sina have to follow these rules, but none of them speak publicly about it.

Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond said ” We have uncovered the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the Web. These sophisticated attacks were made on the email accounts of human right activists, which made us to think about our decision to continue our operations in china.”

Shares of Google fell by 1.3 percent after this announcement whereas Baidu Shares jumped 6.8 percent. Sina shares gained 1.3 percent.

A Google spokesperson said the company was still investigating the attack and would not say whether Google believed Chinese authorities were involved.

“We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all,” Drummond said.

Edward Yu, chief executive of Beijing-based research firm said ” This is really a shocking news as we would be left with fewer choices in China , if Google decided to quit. Also, these rules would prevent big Internet players from investing in to Chinese Market.”

Baidu Hacked By Iranian Cyber Army

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:54:56 +0000

Chinese Search Engine Baidu Was Hacked on Tuesday By an Iranian Groups of Hackers around 10:30 a.m. local time (9:30 p.m. Monday EST).

The group of Hackers, Who call themselves Iranian Cyber Army defaced the Homepage of .com version of Baidu by the banner of Iranian Cyber army filled with Logos of various Iran groups and slogan in Farsi.

Below a sentence in Farsi read, “In reaction to the US authorities’ intervention in Iran’s internal affairs. This is a warning,”

This group had also hacked Popular web 2.0 service Twitter Last month in the same way. The Iranina Cyber army has also hacked Iranian reformist Web site few days back.

Baidu released a statement “This morning, Baidu’s domain name registration in the United States was tampered with, leading to inaccessibility. Baidu has been resolving this issue and the majority of services have been restored. Visitors are suggested to use www.baidu.com.cn instead ”

According to Chinese media, the Site was under attack for at least four hours and there is no evidence that the group which hacked the website is from Iran.

Baidu is the China’s biggest search engine, had 63.9 percent of China’s search engine market as of the end of September, followed by 31.3 percent for Google China, according to Internet research firm Analysys International.

France Going to Tax Google, Yahoo and Facebook

admin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:25:47 +0000

France President Nicolas Sarkozy Has asked its government officials to find out the ways to Tax Online Gaints like Google,Yahoo, Facebook and others for the revenues they generate by showing online ads in France.

According to report from France Governement, The money which would be collected from this tax could be used to fund legal alternatives for buying books, films and music on the internet. Currently, Web companies like Google are only being taxed in US where their headquarters are located for all revenues generated worldwide.

According to sources, this tax can generate up to 20 million euros ($29 million) a year to help finance projects to boost online cultural content and to pay artists.

Olivier Esper, director of public affairs for Google France said ” The Proposed tax is a negative sign for the innovative business and it could slow down the innovation process.The better way was to find efficient business models which could support the content creators in much better way”.

Sarkozy also approved the report’s recommendation that France’s competition regulator review the online advertising market to assess Google’s “possible dominant position,”

Bing Would be Default Search Engine of HP

admin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:25:53 +0000

According to New Deal between Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, Bing would be the default search engine and MSN.com would be the Default homepage on all HP Laptops and PCs worldwide for the time span of three years.

The Earlier Partnership only covered the consumer PCs sold in the United States and Canada, and was effective for 12 months but the extended deal would cover both business and consumer computers worldwide for three years.

This Partnership would help Microsoft to increase the Market Share of its Search Engine Bing, Which was launched in May 2009.

According to Comscore Statics, Bing has maintained a consistent increase in its market Share since its Debut now capturing a market share of 10.3% in Search Engine Market. Whereas, Market share of yahoo has dropped to 17.5% from 18% last Year, Search Engine Giant Google is still maintaining a 65% market share of Search Engine Market.

This deal would really Help Bing, To increase its visibility and to get a huge exposure which is very important.

Dickson Seow, Google’s Southeast Asia head of corporate communications, said “We welcome competition that helps deliver useful information to users and expands user choice. Having competitors is a huge benefit to us and everyone in the search space–it makes us all work harder, and at the end of the day our users benefit from that.”

Yelp Declines 500 Million Dollar offer of Google

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:57:14 +0000

Search Engine Giant Google Efforts to acquire yelp went in vain when Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman backed off at the last moment and declined 500 Million offer from Google.

Earlier, Both Parties were ready for Deal and were working on final details for acquisition. This acquisition was very Important for Google and Google was going to use data of Yelp for building out its own directory of yellow pages and using it to improve Google maps and local business Search Results.

Those who are not aware, Yelp is the Largest local business Directory available on Web.As in November 2009, Yelp had more than 26 million people visitors and Yelpers have written over 8 million local reviews with over 85 per cent of them rating a business 3 stars or higher.

According to Techcrunch, Yelp have received much better offer from an another company due to which Yelp had said No to Google

French Court Fined Google 300,000 euros in Copyright Infringement Case

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:30:43 +0000

A French Court imposed fine of 300,000 euros on Google in Copyright Case in Which Google was found Guilty for violated French copyright law in digitizing books of French Publisher

The Paris Civil Court stated that Google has violated Copyright Law by scanning complete books of French Author.

Judge of Paris Civil Court asked Google to pay amount of 300,000 euros to French Publisher Herve de La Martiniere that decided to take Google to court for digitising its books without first seeking legal permission to do so.

In addition to that Google will pay 10,000 euros per day until it removes extracts of the publisher’s books from its database.

La Martiniere, the French Publishers’ Association and authors’ group SGDL, who had begun the legal action against Google, had called for the Internet search engine giant to be fined 15m euros (£13.2m).