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Ubona launches India's first speech recognition based Call and Connect Service in Bangalore


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Ubona announces the availability of its first service for the people of Bangalore. Using the service, Bangaloreans will be able to call any wine and dine place (restaurants, hotels , sweet shops, bakeries) only by saying the name of the place. The phone number to access the service is (91) (80) 4070 0000. The service is accessible from any landline or mobile phone at no extra cost.


The service is the first expression of Ubona's mission to create a new medium that will be able to comprehend what people say. Ubona believes in creating value for the Indian consumer by using state of the art, indigenous and world class technologies. Ubona is committed to bring in many more innovative and useful services in the near future.

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Guruji - The swadeshi search engine


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If Gandhiji were alive, he'd have been extremely happy (using) seeing Guruji. What if it doesn't yet rank his website on the top, it at least is not just some search engine developed by firangis.

Being a champion of "swadeshi", our beloved father of the nation would have been happy on seeing the indigenously developed search engine and the people behind it who are working arduously to make this product better each day.

Follow us as we take you through the thoughts of Anurag Dod, co-founder of Guruji.com, the first ever Indian search engine aspiring to showcase the "Indian" content to the world.



1. As we understand, Guruji.com is a search engine focused only on mining Indian content. But for the benefit of our readers could you please elaborate on the need for a country specific search engine?

Guruji.com is India focussed search engine which crawls the India relevant information and adds Indian context to the queries e.g. if user is searching for 'President' guruji.com will return Indian president result pages, similarly searching for 'newspaper' will return Indian newspapers. India related content is growing rapidly and there is a need for search engine which should do better job in servicing India related queries. With this release we have launched one major differentiator compared to other search engines : local or city search. This is extremely helpful if user is doing some yellow pages kind of queries rather than just an informational query. e.g. if   read more

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