Archive for December, 2008

Yahoo Winning! Onesearch on mobile

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Yahoo has signed an exclusive deal with Mobile to offer yahoo search engine on mobile phones which as nearly millions of users. This increases yahoo mobile search engine users share around the world. This provides any relevant information on the fingertips of the users. The Yahoo onesearch is designed for the mobile users and gives grouped results to the users query. It offers financial information, news, Flickr™ photos, Web image, weather conditions, and mobile web sites.

The mobile phones have a good Web browsing experience that makes it easy for them to navigate and view the web through customized home page, a convenient shopping and download experience. This is Yahoo award winning onesearch mobile experience. It also displays wallpaper, ring tones, and various games that are within the search result.

For example when the mobile user searches for sports team Yahoo! displays schedules, scores, roster, news, team profiles, team website link, images of the player and much more. Similarly if the user looks for specific movie, Yahoo! displays the timings of the show at the theaters, information and news article, reviews on the cast of the movie.

The users now do not need to surf huge number of links to find specific information. It is now simpler and convenient. You can browse Yahoo! On your mobile at any time with mobile being at your hands reach. Yahoo! onesearch offers only relevant information on any topic such as flight details, Yahoo! answers, Wikipeida’s integrated info and much more. It constantly connects people who need access to Internet wherever they are.

It provides a spontaneous mobile experience that gives you the most significant information at your fingertip. It also provides advertisements and search results sponsored by the mobile. It is helping the advertiser reach the target consumers on a wider scale and is delivering a persuasive consumer service that is helping the marketers connect with the clients. More than 70 mobile operators have selected Yahoo! onesearch engine for their mobile phone consumers.

The Raise of Kosmix.Com- the Popular Search Engine

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Kosmix.com, the popular web search engine closed up the fund counting with an outcome of $20 million invested by TimeWarner, with the contribution form prevailing investors the Accel Partners, the light speed venture partners and the Dag ventures. The total investment counts around to $55 million funding with respect to Kosmix.com.

Two friends, Mr. Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, launched the Kosmix.com in the year 2005. The Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaram were the co-founders of a shopping web based search site, the Junglee. The Junglee was purchased by the famous search site, the Amazon.com in the year 1998.

The Kosmix instigated as a vertical web-based search engine with initial introduction of health related search sites such as the RightHealth.com, as an evidence of notion for the Kosmix advance to the pace of Internet navigation. In mid 2008, the Kosmix stretched its concentration from the normal vertical to fully horizontal application according to the TechCrunch and Crunchbase sources.

With the comparison of Kosmix and Google, the Anand Rajaraman stated that the Google gives accurate result if you are aware of what exactly you are searching for. However, if you just possess a vague idea on any topic, it may be hard to offer the correct answer. He also claims that the Kosmix permit a person to search on a complete topic even with a vague knowledge and it comes out with the entire inter-related topic that you may be interested in.

The extraordinary features of Kosmix.com gained many investors and thereby, helped in rising up $20 million, which is quite a brilliant achievement. The Kosmix.com states that it is planning to use the extra new raise in funds to build up partnerships with some other web properties, add up prominent sales team and to expand the site. The co-founders of Kosmix put forward few examples to prove that the Kosmix is the most relevant search site. He used a simple algorithmic sentence that described the discrepancy between the Google and the Kosmix. The Statements goes Google equals to Search and find but Kosmix equals to explore and browse.

People in Mumbai Prefer Rented Housing as Per Makaan.Com

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

A study to mark the latest economic deceleration on the Indian realty sector conducted by the popular web based real estate portal, The Makaan.com shows that the demand for purchasing homes in Mumbai decreased to around 19 percentages over the period of last one month, which is from September to November 2008. On the other hand, there is tremendous increase in the percentage of demand for home rental seekers. This evidently gives an idea that the property searchers in Mumbai are increasingly postponing their home purchase plan and settling down for rentals in this short period of time.

The Makaan.com also analysed that from the period of September to November of the current year, the supply of homes or lands to be sold out increased by around 14 percentage and the supply of homes to rent incremented by around eight percentage. The chief popular areas in Mumbai for making a home purchase were East Kandivali, followed by the Popular Mira Road, then Kharghar, which is further followed by Ghodbunder Road. However, the main favoured area for renting a property were West Bandra followed by East Kandivali, followed by Andheri and East Goregaon.

The business head of the popular realty site Makaan.com, Mr. Aditya Verma states that there are 3 major leading factors, which are causing the condensation in the real estate sector.

The first factor includes the present deceleration in the international and national economic crisis. This economic crisis had badly decreased the confidence level of the people, which in turn urges them to postpone every heavy value, long term purchasing. The second factor is the famous insight built on people that the property rates come down to about 25%. The third factor is the high interest rate home loans.

All these factors are putting a negative pressure on the entire real estate as well as the Mumbai people in the present term of economic crisis. The rental real estate team will rule the entire market, until there is change in the economic well being and these factor stops their play on the real estate.