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Guruji.com has been voted No.1 for Music search by Indian users

It's party time here! :-) We are thrilled, we've been voted No.1 for Music search by Indian users. Juxt Consult, a renowned online research firm in India, did an independent third party research where unbiased users were asked to search for music on Google.com, In.com, Songs.pk and Guruji.com Music Search and compare their experiences. 

Users voted us as No.1 on all parameters like - ease of usage, time taken to get their task accomplished (get to the song of their choice) - this includes degree of task completions and timeliness of task completion and ultimately overall search experience. It's great to know that our hard work is being appreciated.

We wanted to thank you, for getting us there in less than 2 years. The Guruji team has done a rocking job in creating the first ever search engine in India and you've done a rocking job by voting us the No. 1 Music search engine in India - we beat Google.com, In.com and Songs.pk.

Thank you Guruji users, you rock!

Team Guruji

Research snapshot:

Guruji launches social applications

Imagine dedicating a song to your beloved this Valentine’s or letting people know how you feel about them through music. Leading up to Valentines’ day, Guruji proudly announces the launch of its social apps on Orkut (MusicG) and Facebook (GurujiMusic). These are social music applications designed to showcase Guruji’s music search capabilities to end users, letting them share music with their valentines and communicate their emotions in a musical way.

Guruji music allows users to search for music in all major Indian languages including but not limited to Hindi, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil. Users can search for music old and new based on anything they remember about the music they want to consume – song title, movie/album name, singer/composer/actor name et al. Guruji makes a collection of more than 5 lakh songs accessible to the users under one roof.

 

Guruji’s Facebook  application allows users to dedicate music to their friends. Even the users who are not keen on enjoying music socially, can enjoy it in solitude nonetheless. Guruji’s Orkut application is a little more versatile. It lets users tell their friends how they feel via music. It also let’s them test their own music quotients by taking a fun quiz.

We believe these apps will significantly enhance the music experience of the Indian users on Orkut and Facebook. Well, we’d better stopped bragging and let you enjoy ‘social music’ by visiting MusicG on Orkut and GurujiMusic on Facebook.

- Team Guruji

 

 

Guruji Music Contest

Guruji.com launches the one of its kind “Guruji Music Contest”. It’s a fun contest that challenges music lovers nonetheless. It’s got exciting prizes too – from T-shirts (daily prizes) to, mp3 players (daily prizes) and iPod Shuffles (weekly) to Video iPods (fortnightly) . And yes, the jackpot is nothing less than a Bajaj Pulsar.

 

All that one needs to do in order to win any of these is log on to http://contest.guruji.com, crack a simple quiz and refer friends. A player gets a coupon for answer the simple quiz right. He or she can get more coupons by referring friends and getting them to participate as well. The more coupons a player collects, the better are his chances of winning any price.

 

Guruji music search is an innovative product that scours the entire web for Indian music and presents the same to the users which they can consume right away by visiting http://Guruji.com/music. The user can search for any Indian song of his choice, be it old or new in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu Kannada and a host of other languages. Guruji music search also lets the user search for music by song title, movie/album name, singer/composer/actor name et al. Guruji Music Contest is designed to showcase these abilities of Guruji music search. 

 

Well, that said, we strongly recommend that you stop reading and start winning. Put your music acumen to work and watch your fortune do the trick for you! Visit http://contest.guruji.com NOW!

Team Guruji.

 

Guruji.com Finance – Wealth & Simplicity

Are you a retail investor?

Are you too scared to invest in a bear market?

Do you find the usual financial portals cluttered with information overload?

If the answer to at least one question above is yes, read on.

Guruji.com launches Guruji Finance, a simple and no non-sense financial search engine to help retail investors make informed decisions.

 

We, at Guruji Finance, offer the most current and comprehensive information including stock prices and fundamentals on over 1000 listed Indian companies. What’s more, we also provide you with the latest information on the different sectors of the economy and BSE/NSE of course. And, you don’t have to navigate through numerous confusing links to get the data you want anymore. We have the simplest user interface a financial site has ever had. Best of all, we have a simple stock screener that makes your job of researching stocks in comparison with other financial sites.

So, whether you are looking for Infosys’ stock price today or how the BSE BankEx has been doing or deciding between whether to buy Unitech or HDIL, we have the right tools to help you.

Lastly, Markets worldwide are correlated. And of course, the stock market drives and is driven by variables like consumer spending, employment stats, commodity prices, currency exchange rates, interest rates and news flow. We give you these useful global market snapshots and the macroeconomic picture to help you make the right decisions, without overwhelming you with unwanted data.

So, visit http://finance.guruji.com now and be armed with the right information to create wealth.

Guruji.com is proud to be your partner in your big Indian dream.

Team Guruji.

Guruji Launches Image Search

"A picture is worth a thousand words", they say. This is especially true of information available on the web. Pictures express things, meanings and emotions in a much more elegantly way than any amount of text. But how many times have you might have ended up disappointed either with the quality or with the range of the images served up by popular sites? When every one of us loves images that are close to perfect, shouldn’t there be a search engine to such images easily available, without throwing in junk? So we felt the need to extend our excellence in search and bring the web in all its colors, emotions and glory to our users. As you might have rightly guessed, we are talking about Guruji Image Search.

Selecting the right set of pictures and ordering them to satisfy the need on the user's mind is a complex research problem. And we are proud to announce that we have cracked this problem in a way that we are sure will delight our users. Our image crawlers scour the web for candidate images and our complex ranking algorithm takes into account many factors like relevance, Indian-ness, size and quality of images before presenting the results to our users. Other important factors like the context in which the image occurred on the web and the recency of the image are also factored in.

But these are boring details of what happens behind the scenes. What really matters and what drives us is the smile on your face when you find your queries answered by relevant, colorful and impressive pictures. And we feel that Guruji Image Search will bring many such smiles. So, be it the hottest actors/actresses, the latest sports sensation from India, a renowned tourist destination in your hometown, a Ferrari, a wild animal or any personality from around the world, Guruji Image Search is committed to "picking the right pic" for you every time.

If you have reached the end of this post, you have probably wasted your time on boring words when you could have had a visual feast. What are you waiting for? It’s time to hit www.Guruji.com/image and start living a picture-perfect life.

Thank You,

Team Guruji

Guruji.com Music Search - The easiest and fastest way to your favorite song

1) Have you ever tried looking for your favorite song and gotten disappointed?

2) Have you ever complained about not having a one stop shop for online music?

3) Did you ever wish a search engine solved these problems for you, at least for Indian music?

If the answer to at least one question above is yes, read on.

Guruji Music Search – Guruji Music Search is a one stop shop for all Music lovers searching for Music on the Web. Our Music Index (enriched by songs crawled from all over from the web) has songs ranging from 1932 till 2008, across languages. Guruji Music Search is an attempt to allow users to search for songs in the fastest and easiest way possible. You can search for a song by the song’s words, singers, movie/album, actors, music directors and so on…

 

One can use the “usual” queries (like by Movie or by Song) to search for the song –

Taare Zameen Par

Rang De Basanti

Or go for some specific queries like –

Dilip+Kumar+Laxmikant+Pyarelal+1986 (Songs featuring Dilip Kumar
with music by Laxmikant Pyarelal and released in 1986)

Couldn’t guess the movie of the song? – Karma.

You can also refine your results on parameters like – Language, Time and whether the word occurs in Song, Movie/Album Title, Singer, Actor and so on.

For example the search query “Kishore Kumar”, the user can refine for –

1. Languages – Hindi, Bengali, Marathi (Languages in which Kishore Kumar has sung)
2. Time – 1971-1975, 1981-1985, 1976-1980, 2006-2008, 1956-1960 
3. Category – Kishore Kumar as Singer, Actor, Composer

Do try it out and let us know what you thought.

Guruji Music Search, coz everybody needs a little music in life!

Team Guruji

Live Cricket Scores on Mobile…

You are on the move and can’t access a TV or Computer during a cricket match but still want to feel the excitement of the match.

Cricket is in fact a much loved game and cricket lovers find it difficult to miss even a single action of a cricket match.

Access to cricket score is definitely one of the best ways to stay connected with any cricket match that is being played anywhere in the world.

Now stay in touch with all the latest - India Vs South Africa, upcoming IPL series, other cricket actions - on the move, with Guruji.com live cricket score search on mobile phones with scorecard information,you need never be out of touch with any of the action again.

 

Just type www.guruji.com into your mobile browser and click on the ‘Live Cricket Score’ link to get the latest score.

Click on the ‘Refresh’ link to get score updates.

So, let’s go crazy with the Cricket match excitements without missing the ball to ball updates brought to you by Guruji.com on your mobile phones.

Thank you,
Team Guruji

Guruji on the go…

Search at your fingertips on your mobile…for movie timings, restaurants, hotels, doctors, malls and more in your city. Life just got easier with the Mobile Search application from Guruji.com.

We are pleased to enter into the mobile sphere by launching the mobile search application. It’s interactive and user friendly for easy web search, city specific search, movie timings search and more. Now you can search for “what you want” “when you want” from your own mobile phones.

Here are some screenshots of our mobile search. This is what you would see on your WAP/GPRS enabled phones.

So get answers to any queries, anytime from your mobile phone. Looking for restaurants malls, pubs, pizza, coffee shops, and movie timings? Just try the mobile search at Guruji.com and get results for all your queries.

Now you can get web search in seconds on your mobile. It’s easy and simple, just type www.guruji.com into your mobile browser to experience this search. It is available on all WAP/GPRS enabled mobile phones.

Today we are one step ahead at becoming, the most preferred search engine in the Indian Internet space. A lot many more steps ahead... thank you for being with us.

Do log onto Guruji-mobile and buzz us with your comments as we are eager to hear from you!

Thank you,

Team Guruji

Now Searching in Gujarati

We’ve been hard at work here at Guruji.com trying to learn the Gujarati language. Well, no not really, but we have managed to do something just as challenging, we have just launched the Gujarati language search on Guruji.com!

We are excited about our new Gujarati language search, we already have local language search in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, and know that searching in your local language greatly improves the search experience. After all be it news, entertainment, bollywood gossips, city specific information, business, astrology or any other content you are looking for there is nothing like reading it in the language your mother spoke to you in. (Brings back memories, doesn’t it? :-))

So here we are, calling out to all  who speak and read Gujarati around the World, just log on to http://www.guruji.com/gu/ and find all that you are looking for in your local language. From Dhoklas to Diamonds, from Ahmedabad to Amul, from Mahatma to Modi, try the Gujarati language search at Guruji.com and get results for all your queries.

And on another note, today is 14^th February, a day to show your love and appreciation to the people you care for. The team here at Guruji.com would like to tell all our users that we love your support and feedback and the fact that you use and like our search engine.

We are working away to improving your search experience on Guruji.com, and to be the most preferred search engine in the Indian Internet space. We can’t do this without you and we just wanted to take the time out to say “We love you guys!” to all our users.

Do try the Gujarati language search and tell us what you think.

Spread the news and the love…

Happy Searching…

Team Guruji

Quotes / Mis-quotes

                       "€œMisquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted"

Well, we couldn'™t agree more with Hesketh Pearson today. Yes, this post is about one such misquote.

/" Anurag Dod, chief executive officer of the company, said "Currently the engine serves around one crore users a month and is targeting around six crore in the next seven months"./

The above quote was recently published in a leading newspaper which was then subsequently picked up by other websites/blogs.

We would like to officially state that the above quote has been MISQUOTED.

We would really love to have 1 crore users a month, and looking at the things in our pipeline, who knows, we may have them sooner than we or you think. :-)

Take care and have a great day.

Team Guruji