Google sites received the majority of searches conducted in India according to a study of the online search market from comScore.Google sites in India had more than 1 billion searches conducted in June, representing 81 percent of the market. Yahoo sites ranked a distant second with 117 million searches accounting for 9.4 percent. Ask Network landed in the third spot with 24 million searches representing 1.9 percent of the market.
A rumor reported at the Hindustan Times about India's Rediff portal being a takeover target appears to be more of a leap of faith than a hot tip.
Google’s Orkut is extremely popular in some countries, while YouTube has been successful just about everywhere. And now iShare, a service from Rediff, intends to compete with both services, which begs the question of whether both - or neither - of them should be concerned in any market.