Indian search engine Guruji.com gets $7 million from Sequoia

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A new Indian search engine, Guruji.com, has received a $7 million funding commitment from Sequoia Capital. The search engine claims to use complex algorithms to find Indian content online. Guruji is founded by Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra. Both of them are Delhi Indian Institute of Technology graduates.

At this point, the search site looks rather simple. Its homepage has the basic Google copy-cat layout. As for their search technology, considering they just launched, I will give them the benefit of the doubt. Their search index will obviously grow as their technology matures. If they plan to be the Google of India, they have a lot of work cut out for them.

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6 Responses to Indian search engine Guruji.com gets $7 million from Sequoia

  1. Can guruji.com become the Baidu of India? I have some thoughts about this on http://ileher.com/2006/10/12/gurujicom-baidu-of-india/

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  3. As per as my concerned We’ll definitely work to make guruji better so that you can consider making it your default search engine in the future.

    Regards
    Sourav

    http://www.travel-monitor.com

  4. Rashmi Arora says:

    Hello,

    For my point of view, guruji is a cool website and the info it is giving is awesome but when i first visited the site it was as if i am seeing a desi google (nothing different from google).i think the site shud change the way it looks.

    Regards
    Rashmi Arora
    http://www.indiatourismhub.com

  5. Hi Friends

    As for my point of view Guruji.com has the strength of local search in Indian Languages. And full marks for them. but google is also striving for same.
    They need to be innovative to keep their score up.
    Regards
    Roadsideromeo
    http://www.roadsideromeo.net

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