Guruji.com

Guruji.com is an Indian Internet search engine that is focused on providing better search results to Indian consumers, by leveraging proprietary algorithms and data in the Indian contextInfobox_Company | company_name = Guruji.com
company_

company_type = General Partnership
foundation = flagicon|India Bangalore, India (October 16, 2006)
location_city = Bangalore
location_country = India
key_people = Anurag Dod, CEO/Co-Founder
Gaurav Mishra, COO/Co-Founder |
industry = Internet, Computer software
company_slogan = the indian search engine
homepage = [http://www.guruji.com www.guruji.com] |

The Concept

"guruji.com" was founded by Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra,two Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi graduates in 2006 by the backing of venture capitalists Sequoia Capital. It is the first time that India is seeing a "desi" search engine.

Origin of Name

Guruji.com is derived from the Sanskrit word for teacher,Guru. The search engine aims at giving its "students"(its users) what they require. guruji.com gives pages from India as search results, thus proving to be a search engine By Indians, for Indians. "Guruji.com" was launched to the world on October 16, 2006.

pecialities

* The company has assembled a farm of servers to index the entire universe of Indian websites and is using proprietary algorithms to go deep into the Indian Internet domain and fetch locally relevant results to search queries of Indian consumers.

* At the bottom of the home-page, there is always some tit-bits of information about India(under "Gyaan")

* User will be able to see local business listings as well as articles, reviews, blogs, or any other web references made in India.

References

* Sequoia Capital http://www.sequoiacap.com/company/guruji

External links

* [http://www.guruji.com/ Guruji.com Search Engine]