Apr 14, 2007

How big is Orkut in India?

According to Alexa it's the second ranking website in India ! Coming below Yahoo and above Google India and Google.com. So Google owns three of the top 4 sites in India.

What is more interesting is after Rediff and MSN (the .com version, not the .co.in version!) YouTube comes in at number 7. We've heard of lack of broadband in India, but YouTube's popularity is really staggering in that light!

Jobsite Naukri.com is number 8, showing up as the first specialised website in the ranking (being the first jobsite in India obviously contributes to that), followed by Blogger.com. Yes, Indians are taking to social media like ducks to water. Orkut, YouTube and Blogger's Alexa ranking shows that. Again, all three are owned by Google.

Indians also like to share files over the internet that shows the popularity of Rapidshare and Megaupload, both coming in on the top 15 websites.

The first mainstream media website is Indiatimes at number 13 followed by soft-porn site Debonairblog.

Cricket's not really taken a beating, as cricinfo which is the preferred site for NRIs to follow the game is number 17 followed by music site Raaga.com and desi portal Sify.com

4 comments:

  1. Hmm, well here is a static list of the top Indian Blogs according to Alexa.
    Link
    (where you are ranked #27)

    And here is a dynamic list of top Indian blogs according to Technorati
    Link
    (where you are ranked #23)

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  2. If Google.com and google.co.in are treated as one, my guess is that they will be No. 1.

    YouTube is amazing though. A lot of offices (mine, for example) block it as well because it takes up too much bandwidth!

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  3. And gosh! You are ranked higher than GreatBong? And Youth Curry?

    I suddenly see you with greater respect!

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  4. no no..youth curry is #10 and GreatBong is #15

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