Website Alert - Asklaila.com
Four Interactive, a Bangalore-based start up has developed an intelligent search engine Asklaila.com, which aims at redefining online local search. To start with, the company has launched the search engine for Bangalore city, and plans to include local information of all metros and 22 cities in the next one year.
The technology involved in the search engine is an advanced algorithm that dissipates all available information and contextualises each word or a set of words to search a desired information, to give accurate local information.
The search can give information for instance on the availability of home-delivered food, place for hair cut, priest or a shop to repair mobile phones or electronic goods with options of zeroing in on the service to the micro level up to the block, phase and even lane level.
If their About Us page is any indication, it would be a pretty vibrant set-up.
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Well, just tried to ask laila
The search and UI are way better than the existing competition (If you consider justdial or guruji as serious local-search competition on the web). Will be nice to see if the site scales well when it comes to multiple cities!
Was just noticing how the messaging on the site changes when you search for something that gives exact results to when the search results inexact results. Good work, I must say…
E.g.: I searched for ‘Pizza hut’ in ‘Adugodi’. Though there is not pizza hut in adugodi, laila gave a result of pizza hut in koramangala as the first result. Compare with justdial, which gives all pizza huts in bangalore in alphabetical order of location!