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25% Failure Rate For IRCTC Transactions [March 2011 Report]
IRCTC is India’s largest ecommerce site and the site contributes ~14% to Indian railways revenue. The failure rate for IRCTC transactions hovers around 25% and among the credit/debit cards, ICICI turns out to be the best performer (79.55% success rate), followed by HDFC. In total, IRCTC witnessed 11530099 transactions out of which 8652518 were successful (i.e....
Cleartrip Quietly Takes Off Train Ticket Booking From the Site
Cleartrip launched train ticket booking in September of 2008 and it seems the service has been quietly taken off. The link cleartrip.com/trains navigates back to the homepage and there hasn’t been any word from Cleartrip on this yet (not even on the discussion forum). Though in earlier discussions on Cleartrip’s forum, the company has cited...
The Super Duper List of Groupon Clones in India [28 and counting]
It’s been exactly a year since we spotted the trend of group buying sites or Groupon clones mushrooming everywhere. The past year has been actioned filled and mostly the center of attention in the startup ecosystem. SnapDeal was leading the game all along with boatload of marketing $$s being pumped in, the one thing that hasn’t...
Did You Know That Rediff Was The first .com Domain Registered in India [15 Years of India Internet]
India celebrates 15 years of Internet in the country and while we still fuss over the penetration of Internet in India, the fact is that we are world’s fourth largest Internet country and by 2013, India will be 3rd largest in terms of Internet users. India Online – Quick Snapshots With 81 million Internet users1...
Best of the Week–Gmail, Failed IRCTC Transactions, UID Project [and more]
This week, we brought the Snapdeal story to you (in a typical UnPluGGd format) and we strongly recommend that you watch the entire story, in order to understand the real story behind the company. Best of the Week What Separates Startup Men from Poys [The P word] What’s the ‘P’ word we are talking here?...
25% Failure Rate For IRCTC Transactions [December 2010 Report]
IRCTC is India’s largest ecommerce site and while they do charge hefty amount for banner ads [see IRCTC banner ad rates], the site contributes ~14% to Indian railways revenue [though lndian railways is planning to launch its own travel site]. We earlier covered the jump in IRCTC’s transactions by 52% within a year and it’s not...
Travel Search is more ‘Green’ [Than the OTA Model]
People who want to travel need to compare flight (or train) options before buying – i.e. search the cheapest and the best flight (or train). So some kind of search on top of the Airlines sites and Railway sites is required. Else the user will have to do the comparison on various sites themselves. Both the Travel Search model and the OTA model fulfill that need.
Best of the Week–Notion Ink, Modu, Top Searches of 2010
Recap of top articles [week ending Dec 12th].
Hottest Search from India–IRCTC and Micromax Mobile! [Google Zeitgeist 2010]
Micromax is on a rise and its amazing to see that Indians went crazy searching for Micromax mobile, IRCTC and youtube videos through out 2010. The top 10 searches from India, as per Google Zeitgeist are IRCTC Login Micromax Mobile Youtube Videos FIFA Facebook Cricket Live Score Twitter Way2SMS Samsung Mobile Zedge Fastest Rising People...