Sulekha February 4, 2007
Posted by Pallav Sharda in : Uncategorized , trackbackI remember Sulekha from 2001: It was a Indian-community page- great place to find local events in New York or classifieds. Although I stopped using it after a short while, the content breadth seems to have gone north for sulekha since then.
Sulekha has blogs, groups, classifieds, yellow pages, networking, movies, travel, cricket, news, tickets, event info, and what-not for the 25 cities they cover (6 in India, 16 in US, plus Dubai, London, Singapore). They claim 95% of their content is user-generated.
The user-interface is nothing great. You’ll find the pages overloaded with content almost everywhere. My biggest problem with Sulekha is that I’m overwhlemed by information on every page and don’t know where to start.
Inspite of the below-average usability, Sulekha wins with the usual Indian advantage- numbers. It has a big user-base, which makes it amongst the most useful Indian portal for NRI’s who aspire to socialize or find local Indian events/classifieds.
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I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read.
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“They claim 95% of their content is user-generated.”
I don’t know where you goit it from, I see they claiming “90% user contributed content” http://www.sulekha.com/partners/adv/ (bottom midlle flash banner). It is possible they have contradictory claims on the site.
PS: Can you add Comment Track Plugin (email not RSS), it helps in tracking comment chain.
Dear Gaurav,
I got the 95% statistic from Sulekha’s “About” page. Obviously, I have don’t have a clue if that claim is actually true.
Thanks for the plugin tip. Will add it soon.
~eIndia Moderator