Comments on: Antya : Yet another Local search!

By: ram

ram — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:33:33 +0000

hi rajat

being a local search player Google is the flight you take to go long distances( large search) and we are the local transport between t.nagar – adyar. The big search stumbles at local levels as its lens is not finegrained enough

By: ReviewSaurus

ReviewSaurus — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:18:59 +0000

Hey Satya, thanks for the comments. I’m glad that you came with some great points where we can discuss further about Desimartini, ht media and antya itself.

1) Hey dude… i saw ur review… first of all…. u r not enough to rank such a big players in India :

Well, completely agreed but I just gave my point of view and nothing else. HT media bought it seeing the money coming in or did they buy it because they see a business opportunity out of it.

Do you see any progress made in Desimartini after HT Media bought it ? I don’t think anything has been done till this time and if DesiMaritini is making few dollars out of it (considering Vivek boasted about the userbase), they can much more out of it on that userbase itself.

However, nothing of that sort can be seen. Maybe you can enlighten us more on that.

2) we cannot compare the antya.com with the mother of search engine (google.com)… as u said there mission is : “To make all brands & businesses discoverable to the end user�?

Well, antya came up as local search engine with a mission (which I took from their website…in never said it myself) so I just compared it with Google’s local search. And I think you missed out the line where I mentioned about Guruji (again a local search engine from India).

3) As u have searched for pizza hut chennai in google.com which resulted you list of pizza hut outlets in chennai….. have u noticed that all the results got the same url…. that is the idealogy of that people..

That was just the local part of the search result, I never displayed the whole search page, but I’ve included the link so if you search for same terms you’ll get various search results which will have various URLs. Plus I mentioned that it gives me the phone number to reach to the Pizza hut’s and that sounds more fruitful rather than going on that site.

4) But onething i can understand is u r a good critisizer than a review maker.

Thank you for appreciating me. If at all my criticism can be of any help to the developers, then I’ll consider my post as successful.

Although, I did mention that where I would love to use Antya, I guess you missed that part too.

By: satya

satya — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:39:49 +0000

Hey dude… i saw ur review… first of all…. u r not enough to rank such a big players in India… Do u think HT purchased the site without seeing any income from DesiMartini.. ?

Secondly, we cannot compare the antya.com with the mother of search engine (google.com)… as u said there mission is : “To make all brands & businesses discoverable to the end user�?

Then there is no way in ranking or review the places

As u have searched for pizza hut chennai in google.com which resulted you list of pizza hut outlets in chennai….. have u noticed that all the results got the same url…. that is the idealogy of that people..

There are here to brands discoverable…. understand the words properly and give the feedback…..

But onething i can understand is u r a good critisizer than a review maker.

Anyway dude make a good reivews…… bye!!! Thank u