Local search is projected to gain exponential importance with broadband penetration in India. Guruji.com is one such site which was setup in late 2006 to cater to to Indian needs.
“Local Search is a Guruji innovation in which we bring the information relevant to you quickly. This is your quick guide to important information about your restaurants, dentists, doctors and other day to day needs.”
“Guruji.com is the first crawler based search engine for India and India related content. Our proprietary algorithm automatically identifies India related content on the web and organizes it in such a way that you get the most relevant results fast“
See below how guruji.com manages to pull up only relevant pages. Also, the number of search results by guruji is less than a factor of 5 as compared to that of google.
