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Indiblogger.in December 6, 2007

Posted by Pallav Sharda in : Blogs, Technology , trackback

It may now be time to start a list around Indian blog directories. Indiblogger.in is another addition to that group of directories specifically listing blogs of Indian origin.

It’s hard to set your site apart in a growing commodity-like space, but Indiblogger does a good job of being distinct. Apart from the hip language ( ‘no dogs were injured in making of this website’, ‘Indified by..’, terse FAQ page), they offer some niceties like badges (multiple flavors of graphics that bloggers can display on their blog), wordpress theme and Google-powered custom search for Indian blogs. All of these are good ideas that can make bloggers look at Indiblogger favorably.

Although I couldn’t find details on who actually is behind Indiblogger, the fact that they have a relevant, concise and lucid blog gives me an impression that the founders are passionate and serious about it. According to their blog, they recently added a social networking feature that will enable users to build a network of blogs they read. I couldn’t figure out the details of that feature (guess I’d have to register for that insight). Like I’ve said in the past, it’s always a good idea to put a ‘How it works’ or ‘Features’ type link from homepage so potential registrants can understand the benefits before they go through the effort.

That being said, eIndia and Indiblogger.in have one thing in common: no apparent business model (except the ubiquitous model of advertising, of course!). PS: Indiblogger does claim to be non-profit enterprise.

Update: On Jan 28th, Indiblogger team launched Indiboogle.in, a google custom search powered search engine for Indian blogs. I haven’t had time to play with it enough to review it’s performance yet, but if you did, leave a comment below.