A truly local, Local Search

Local search is a nascent stage at present. Not so long back I wrote about guruji.com coming up in the same area. What Guruji has done is just take the format of Google and extrapolate it over local search. We hardly see anything new. No doubt it makes life easier for all of us who use internet, that is just 13% of the urban population (if we consider the number of people who have ever used internet in their life, active users are around 8% of the urban population), what about the rest?

Just Dial, again an Indian entrepreneurs venture, has come out with the solution for just the same. Telephone penetration is India is 17.16 per 100 persons; this is including the rural areas as well, which might not be in the target segment of local search as of now. Just Dial has shown true application of thought by adopting the local search feature to Indian conditions.

A question of small or big

I just have one small question running in my mind since long...why do you hate MS and Yahoo!....just cause they are big??? just cause we are bored with what they are giving us right now?? just cause our empathy, sympathy and all the related feelings are with the supposed strugglers and smaller fishes like Google???

Lets ponder over it for a moment...look at the history of any big company in this world...they haven't been made big overnight, there was a time when even these companies were strugglers, they broke all the conventions and gave the consumers something new and bring about a revolution in the world...Don't you think Google is in a similar phase right now?? I guess we shud give the other 2 companies some credit too...what say guys and gals????