This was bound to happen soon or later. Smart investors know where to put their money 
The same team which initially invested in Google & made Google what it is today have now invested in FutureBazaar.com which is the ecommerce portal of the Future Group [ Pantaloon & BigBazaar fame, led by Kishore Biyani]
According to ContentSutra, Sherpalo Venture’s Ram Shriram & Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers - KPCB , have invested an undisclosed amount for a 15% stake in FutureBazaar.com
Would lightning strike for the 4th time for Ram Shriram?
It did thrice already as he was involved with Netscape, Amazon & Google !!!
What’s so special about this? Well, In Sep 2007, I wrote a post “Online marketing strategy for FutureBazaar.com“,
in which I have mentioned only the NRI potential for FutureBazaar.com, which works out to 13 Billion USD$ read it here:
http://www.iprash.com/2007/09/13/marketing-strategy-futurebazaarcom/
Related posts:
Book Review - It Happened in India by Kishore Biyani
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The official Google Webmaster Central Blog has a new post titled:
The Ultimate Fate of Supplemental Results
which as usual started a thread on WMW here.
According to the post:
From a user perspective, this means that you’ll be seeing more relevant documents and a much deeper slice of the web, especially for non-English queries. For webmasters, this means that good-quality pages that were less visible in our index are more likely to come up for queries.
Ii checked a website of mine which had geo-city & intra city pages & [for ‘More results from …], i was able to see lot many more pages which were not visible earlier. So, yes, Google is showing up more pages from a website, which were not displayed earlier, & this is without - “repeat the search with the omitted results included”.
So, good for website owners & better for Google as more adwords inventory to be unlocked.
Will report on this again, say in a month or 2 to check/report for consistency.
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** Update ** this event has been postponed till further notice.
The venue for the Chennai SEO Training Program has been finalised. It’s at
Quality Inn Sabari
# 29, Thirumalai Pillai Road
T.Nagar, Chennai: 600017
Tel: +91-44-2834 30 30, 2834 59 00
19-20 January 2008 : Professional SEO Skills training course
21 January 2008: SEO/PPC Service Bureau Owners course.
These SEO Training programs will be conducted by Ash Nallawalla who is a speaker at Webmasterworld conference in Las Vegas 2007 & runs his SEM / SEO Training and consultancy under the name of TrainSEM.
Updates on the SEO Training programs in Chennai will be here:
http://www.trainsem.in/seo-chennai.html
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