Comments on: Replication Wars – Naukri vs Bixee

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[...] openings across portals. Note that a few years ago, Info Edge had sent job aggregator Bixee.com a legal notice for indexing job listings from Naukri.com. Bixee was later bought by MIH India, and has since [...]

By: Prashant

Prashant — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 06:24:49 +0000

Well i hope it will be like that . in case of meebo i think there ambition and stratergy is deep than just aggregating the IMs of world . have you noticed that with a lot of ppl going to meebo and doing IM it is on its way to be widely used IM Platform with Eyeball from every IM community.Now look at the implication of so much of screen space available on there site . its an equilant of real state on higway ( information highway ) .

i think they will be using it for advertisement then they will start making money . think a contextual banner/text Adv based on content of your chat . it can be real killer app .

what do you say ? amazon , eBay who don’t have an big IM user base will go gaga over it. guess that make them a hot target for buyout . i think like hot mail of web 1.0 , meebo will be poster boy of web 2.0 . you agree ??

prashant

By: Rajan

Rajan — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 00:55:24 +0000

Green hire story is pretty interesting !! I think the naukri has not understood the web at all and how it works. It is probabaly run by droids/suits whose only notion of value is through exclusion which forms the basis of throwing any externals out the window.

It is going to be really fun watching the fireworks when web 2.0 is going to unleash a crushing force on naukri. Naukri will get cannibalized like the way naukri did to offline placement agencies.

Aggregator in the case of bixee though is danger for naukri because naukri’s asset is its content. In the case of meebo/yahoo their asset is the name space.

Rajan

By: Prashant

Prashant — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:47:00 +0000

Bixee is not the only victim of this Walled Garden approach of naukri.com . there used to be a small software tool called Green Hire which use to scan the naukri database and download the word files CVs on desktop . naukri blocked it . now either you need to send the cv as attachment or save all of them one -by-one . anybody who has steeped inside a recruitment firm knows what it means and how much work it is ?

does naukri has a reasons ? ya The software runs some script which might affect the data residing on server . now its bixee . one thing i can’t understand about the naukri is there business is not on eyeballs. at least not at the revenue/subscription side of it . why did they stopped Green Hire than ?

Bixee might be a distant danger but historically agree gators never been any threat to source of content . can meebo be a threat to yahoo or MSN
in the world of Google Map and Skype API we have one site blocking other .

So much for the collaboration in web 2.0 and other crap