Comments on: Yahoo Makes Super Strategic Investment In Indian 411 Service

By: Wroritummus

Wroritummus — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:51:35 +0000

very intresting

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By: VYESJI

VYESJI — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:24:40 +0000

It seems that all search companies including yahoo are pretty serious in investing in India. As far as numbers are concerns yellow pages (directory based search) in India has penetration of only 15-20% compared to 55% in developed countries. So their is enough space for new players like Yahoo.

To find out more about Indian Online Search Market. Visit http://vyesji.blogspot.com/

VYESJI

By: dugabitdeep

dugabitdeep — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:27:49 +0000

ISPs are a load of crap in India.
PCs are sold through the f***ing “channel”. (sorry)
The channel is a collection of finest “Ferengi” in the galaxy. They beat Enron and Wall Street in sheer quality. The channel bribes the IT ministry bureaucrats and they screw the system further. Consequently it is easier for MIT to get the OLPC XOs to kids in Africa, Far East Asia and South America than to “democratic” India. Been there, fought that. Lost time, money.
Q: What’s all that got to do with this?
A: IBM
IBM’s innovated a VOIP-based *voice surfing* service to connect rural India to the “web”.
Aural stylesheets, embedded TTS, Mobile browsers and stuff.
“Talking web”
Do things make more sense now?

Someone’s failed miserably in the Indian IT system, but it’s surely not me
(that was for the omnipresent/omniscient trolls…)

By: Sameer

Sameer — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:34:41 +0000

I agree with hawk. Voice search is an area with a huge potential in India where the internet penetration is 5-6% and mobile telephone penetration is 30%.

Also the growth of mobile telephony is far more than the growth of internet.

By some estimates Just Dial has revenues of 25 Mn USD and growing ( all thru lead generation)

Hence this business will make sense as going forward voice powered search will be the fastest growing category in India.

By: mendor

mendor — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:20:07 +0000

Give up on their own employees and abandoning their home market to go somewhere else – Balmer’s right: let them burn and buy at super cheap price.

By: Hawk

Hawk — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:12:49 +0000

Some of the comments seems to be quite clueless and you are dignifying them with a “dig deeper” statement. Anyway, the company is in 14 cities and not 1(read the Indian blogs) and the internet site is not what Y! invested for but the voice directory services which is their primary business. With this kind of backdrop, one can guess what the knowledge or motive of those commenters is. Please read the Indian press which has written more knowledgeably.

This is a space which is very hot in India – the industry leader Just Dial, got 2 rounds of investments from Softbank and Tiger. Google is testing out its voice directory search services in beta in 2 cities in India. Most Indian blogs say that this investment will give Yahoo! a head start over Google. And if you remember, you have been championing this company called Jingle Networks. The Indian companies are more evolved than Jingle and they don’t run on ads but on lead based models.

By: Pavan K

Pavan K — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:50:38 +0000

I second that – Mike – there is too much Spam here, a simple functionality like that can help fight the trolls, and add value for those of us that want to separate the useful comments from the SpamLocator type comments that get on all your posts.

By: Puzzled

Puzzled — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:11:34 +0000

A for Apple, B for Boy…. Why? for Yahoo!

By: Sameer Parwani

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:58:36 +0000

Just because the company as a whole is struggling doesn’t mean that the company should come to a standstill. I’m sure they have the resources to spare to evaluate a small investment.

By: arun

arun — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:38:44 +0000

Yahoo made few other investments in India few years ago and first being BharatMatrimony.com, the largest matrimony portal in India and tyroo adnetwork and both the companies seems to be doing good. BharatMatrimony.com raised the second round of funding early this year.

While Yahoo may not be doing well in US but in India it’s a market leader and they seems to be doing the right thing.

By: concern

concern — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:32:41 +0000

Been hearing a lot of questionable deals about India. I’ve been hearing startups channeling VC-funded $ to operations in India using “outsourcing” as the reason. Can anyone confirm how VCs here allowing this to happen.

By: camera

camera — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:32:36 +0000

Yes, this is really very cool~
I’m sure Yahoo has great reasons for the investment

By: wfh

wfh — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:52:17 +0000

The news articles seems atleast 6 months old on indiainfoclick (Bhutto assassination, mob attack etc). It seem Yahoo has acquired them for their directory like structure — not sure if they would have got the same thing done from a contractor.

By: Hussain

Hussain — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:35:26 +0000

I am from Chennai and am quite familiar with this site. Quite a useful site locally. It will be very interesting to find out Mr.TSN (the CEO of call chennai) and his connections. Will update here once I find any connection.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:11:36 +0000

@ the locator spam guy -

TC’s spam filters repeatedly don’t catch ur comments. So maybe they aren’t as effective as they think.

By: StrategyLocator.com

StrategyLocator.com — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:49:40 +0000

TC spam filters are 99.9 percent effective.

yahope now has a great excuse to use the indian labor pool and get rid of more US workers.

investment?……… or outsourcing in disquise?

By: Amit Bhawani

Amit Bhawani — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:36:53 +0000

Mike why not implement some kind of Report Comments Plugin in this blog, where in if you find more negative votes to a comment, its disabled/removed. Referring to Comment#1 in this post.

Also the site indiaclickinfo looks like a kids owned site, may be yahoo invested into something else!

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:29:46 +0000

got it.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:29:28 +0000

ok. I’ll dig deeper tomorrow.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:12:19 +0000

make that –
A yahoo exec has some VERY VERY close ties to this company.

that does not even have operations all over india. its _one_ city..

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:56:52 +0000

Yahoo seems to be running around with its head chopped off for well over a year now… either it’s stuck in the sand or floating over their now dead body but either way, their demise is continuing towards indifference.

Jon
http://WoodMarvels.com – Create Unique Memories

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:50:24 +0000

That URL is spam, of course…

By: EyesOpenMouthShut

EyesOpenMouthShut — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:40:21 +0000

Dig deeper Mike.

A yahoo exec has some VERY close ties to this company.

By: Tensir

Tensir — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:39:13 +0000

Yahoo number one beatufiul http://tinyurl.com/4rdhmc