ByIndia - India Loves It
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on January 11, 2007,
Business Wire, January 10, 2007, Orlando, FL - Byindia.com is a reworked social networking and search site that was re-launched by Web2Corp 3 months ago and was already covered here on Profy. The site also provides live auctions, a blog portal, classifieds, and video among other features. Growth for the company over these 3 months has been tremendous, according to the release. ByIndia achieved the #1 most visited ranking just prior to 2007, and the mentioned growth has exceeded 700 percent continuously over this same period. This new Indian company has already doubled the traffic of its competitors Guruji.com and SearchIndia.com according to Alexa.com.
Bill Mobley, CEO of Web2Corp said:
ByIndia.com continues to grow beyond all of our expectations. The fact that we’ve grown more than 700 percent each and every week for three months really shows that we’re starting to get traction in the Indian internet community. Our search engine is, of course, the most popular product that we offer, but we’ve also been seeing a lot more people going to our blogs and video sections, taking advantage of our new Web 2.0 products. The power of Web 2.0 lies in making your users return customers who engage in commentary and dialogues. I think it’s clear that we’re doing that.
Byindia is kicking off the New Year with a bang, as Mobley announced that they will be having monthly drawings for a $5 million dollar jackpot drawing for new registrants. ByIndia serves Indian consumers in much the same way MySpace, YouTube, and eBay do people outside India.
It is nice to see sites from around the world, and how people in those places view the world. As we enter the 21st century, our similarities become as obvious as our differences. The ByIndia site is very much like those most popular ones we utilize here. I believe it was Confucius that said: “Emulation is the sincerest form of compliment.” We all really learn from copying things that we find useful or pretty, and true innovation is often the reintroduction of something long since forgotten.
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Hello there I am an Indian and I was shocked to see this Huge Spam site reviewed by you. The statistics are fake and artificial they have been caught Splogging which is the real reason why there Alexa Rank is shown to be so high.
Please Read this post which how I first came to know about it.
http://mutiny.wordpress.com/2006/12/13/copyingthe-cheapest-form-of-flattery/
In fact they are splogging pretty actively right now. look at blogs.byindia.com it contains a huge number of fake blogs with content ripped off from other people blogs. this in turns help to turn the Google Juice towards byindia.com
By the way most of the blogs are about SEO, Viagra and Diet Pills. next time you review a company please look through there website properly.
Hi, thank you for the insighful information. But I still believe it is quite impossible to get this kind of info when you simply review a website - I spent some time toying with the website but I did not find anything criminal, really. One needs to be an active user of a website to really get to know what it is all about and what users mostly do there.
@Phil Butler: Great review! Thanks for the shout out. Keep tuned to ByIndia.com, as we will be updating features and adding new ones throughout the next few months.
@ Scribez: The issue that you are speaking of has been resolved already, with scraped blogs (”Splogs”, as you say), being taken down as we are notified of them. We are currently developing a technology that will notify us if blogs are copying material, but this doesn’t really solve the problem. Many bloggers copy press releases on topic matters that interest them, with or without crediting them properly. This has become an accepted practice in the blogging community, but also means that there are a large number of false positives that a technology that looks for duplication of blog postings will find. Also, with the rise of services such as PayPerPost, it is not uncommon for bloggers to copy *themselves* as a way to earn more money.
In short, simply identifying blogs that have copied content does not mean that we are locating only splogs, which also means that we have to dedicate someone to manually filtering the results we get to make sure that we aren’t suspending accounts without cause. Since we’re still a small company with big dreams, we haven’t been able to justify making a job position for just that kind of work. Once we’re bug like Google or Yahoo, we may be able to afford that, but right now we have to rely on the understanding and the help of bloggers who find that their own material has been copied on our blogs to inform us of what has happened.
If it makes you feel any better, our high traffic numbers are not due to the splogs as you suggested, since blogging traffic accounts for only 16% of the site traffic, according to Alexa.com. The search engine and other social networking tools account for a lot more of the traffic, and we pride ourselves on the variety of quality products that we offer to the Indian community. Our high traffic rankings seem to indicate that the Indian community agrees.
I’m sorry if any content that you created has been copied. Please let the site administrator know at the address posted on ByIndia.com and we will address it as soon as we can.
Trevor Longino
Communications Director, Web2Corp.
It is always unfortunate when (inevitably) we offend someone. I reiterated a press release about this site, and just added that I thought the site was taking on the form of the others mentioned. I have since read the blog posts and your suggested links to find that your concerns we well founded.
I truly sympathize with Scribez, in regard to copyright issues. It is also abundantly obvious that Trevor has apologized several times, and made a great effort to explain the situation. His web site blog area has apparently been virtually “gutted” in an effort to rectify the situation.
So, your concerns seem to have gotten a rather appropriate degree of attention. The finality of this issue rests, of course, between the parties involved.
As for my post, I was correct and sincere in my comments about the site. I did not say the site was the web 3.0 answer to world peace and strife! It is, according to Alexa, the most visited. In comparison to the other search engines in India, this site is web 3.0!
I sincerely hope that this situation is resolved for all concerned.