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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

We have a new face!!

We have turned 1 last month, and what better way to gift ourselves than getting a brand new look.

We thank all our users who kept on telling us that we can do so much better with a new UI. We dedicate this new UI to them.

Frankly, it didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that we need to get better on look and feel. Guess, we were just too engrossed in getting our search piece right and the UI took a backseat. But now we are trying to change for better.

We have set up a quick poll that you can see on the right side of the search result page. Just select Yes/No and tell us if you liked our new look.

We are waiting.

You take care.

Team Guruji

We just turned 1..

“The woods are lovely, dark and deep….

Well, it feels nice to stop at the woods for a while, and reminisce about the year gone by. Did you ask why recall a whole 1 year? That’s because exactly this day last year we launched Guruji.com – India’s very own search engine. Yes, today we complete one whole orbit around the sun.

What a year it has been!

We launched ourselves with a mixed set of responses, the skeptics said - “Why do you need another search engine?”, “Do you guys really think you can do it?”….”It’s tough” and so on. But this wasn’t without our share of supporters who encouraged us through out – “Go Guruji go”, “All the best guys, we are proud of you”, “I think you can do it”…and some more sweet words. If there was cynicism there was encouragement too.

The year saw all of us get on a roller coaster of emotions, filled with flavor of triumph – “yes, we will do it..” as well as some occasional bouts of doubts – “will this actually work?”.

We know we haven’t reached the destination yet but the journey certainly has been fun.

The year saw us launch web, city, Indian language and movie search. We are working towards making these products much better, and launch many more.

The year also saw us, constantly experimenting with “search”, re-discovering what it takes to create a world class search engine (we are getting there :).. ), understanding our users, and more importantly, having fun doing all this.

The year also saw our user base grow, and we cannot thank you enough for that. Thanks for your patronage. Your support helps us get better everyday.

The year to come will be much more exciting. We can already feel the excitement, as we think of things that we would write this day next year.

We know it’s not an easy task that we have set for ourselves but then is easy fun? :)

                                                                                      …….And I have miles to go, before I sleep”

Guruji Movie Timing Search – Chak de Guruji !!

It’s Friday afternoon and you are planning to catch a movie that weekend. You get on to the internet and try searching for movie timings. Chances are that you won’t find it as easily as you thought it would be. Especially, if the theatre that you are keen on is not one of the large multiplexes, or the movie that you want to watch is not one of the more popular ones, or if you stay out of the 4 metros.

We are trying to change that, and here we are with “Guruji Movie Timing” (Infact, we did a soft launch of this a couple of weeks back).

Now, you can search for precise movie timings in 12 cities across more than 325 movie theatres.

The cities that we currently cover are – Mumbai,Delhi,Kolkata,
Chennai,Bangalore,Pune,Hyderabad,Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Mangalore and Lucknow.

We will soon add to the list.

With Guruji Movie Timing, you can search for –

• All the movies in a particular theatre - “movies in PVR Bangalore” 
• A particular movie in a city - "Chak de India in Mumbai"
  

 Some of the other searches you may find interesting are -

“English movies in Delhi”

“Hindi movies in Chennai”

“Tamil movies in Bangalore”

“Sanjay Dutt movies in Nagpur”

So, next time you want to catch that Saturday night movie, you know where to go.

Go ahead and discover it for yourself. Do drop us a note on what you thought.

You take care and have fun.

Team Guruji.

Guruji.com Wishes You A Very Happy Independence Day

                    “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
                                        Where knowledge is free;
                      Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
                                        by narrow domestic walls;
                      Where words come out from the depth of truth;
                Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
                    Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
                                into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
                     Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening
                                            thought and action--
                                Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
                                           let my country awake.”

                                                                           ~ Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore Gitanjali, Verse 35.

The above lines by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore best captures the essence of an India we all dream of. On the eve of India’s 60th Independence Day, we salute the heroes who have made it possible for us to live in a free world.

Guruji.com wishes each one of us a very happy and proud Independence Day.

- Team Guruji

Guruji Search and Win Contest

“What if we make Search more fun? Better still, it will be great if we can also let our users win some cool prizes while they search and have fun on Guruji.com.”

This is the core idea of Guruji Search and Win Contest, which went live yesterday on the 2nd of July 2007.

The contest is simple. All one has to do is search on Guruji.com and answer 5 easy questions. This wins you a Guruji coupon. You can also “Refer a Friend” and win an extra coupon for every invited friend who completes the contest.

Your Guruji coupons can win you some cool prizes like a trip for two to Singapore (including Airfare, Hotel stay, meals, sightseeing and more..), a super cool 150 cc Bajaj Pulsar, Video iPods, iPod Shuffles, MP3 players and more.

As you can see, the more the Guruji coupons you have better your chances. We are also giving away an iPod Shuffle to the top most Guruji coupon holder every week.

So what are you waiting for? Click here to play the Guruji Search and Win Contest.

You can also Take a Sample Question, Check out the Prizes,  Read the Rules and Regulations, Check out the Recent Winners, or just simply play the contest.

We hope you have fun playing the contest and win some exciting prizes too.

Cheers,
Team Guruji