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Ex-IIT Delhi duo Anurag Dod and Gaurav Misra has
launched a new local seach engine aimed at Indian web consumers called
Guruji.com. Leading Indian venture capital firm Sequoia Capital has
invested $ 7 million (Rs.31.5 crore) as seed funding to the venture.
Aimed at the Indian web consumer, Guruji.com claims to provide better
search results by leveraging proprietary algorithms and data in the
Indian context. The company has built its data centre in US with 40
servers to index Indian websites to provide locally relevant results to
search queries related to India using proprietary algorithms for
intelligent mapping of entire database. Crawl technology used by
Guruji.com crawls the web to identify Indian content on a regular
basis. “The technology is built on a distributed architecture and
crawls the web, indexes the data that it gathers and provides the user
with a simple keyword based interface to get to the data quickly and
efficiently” said Gaurav Mishra, Co-Founder & COO, Guruji.com while
elaborating on the search technology used by the company. The company
is targeting $50 million Indian search engine advertisement market
using Pay-Per-Click (PPC) revenue model. It may be noted that according
to a study done by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)
there are about 65 million people who use search engines in India
regularly.
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