4. Zomato was started as foodiebay.com by Deepinder
Goyal in July 2008. It provides information on home
delivery, dine-out, cafés and nightlife. They cover all
eateries ranging from a 5 star hotel to a roadside dhaba. It
started with a list of 1200 restaurants in Delhi and NCR, In
November 2010 Foodiebay.com name changed to
Zomato.com to avoid confusion with ebay.com. Till
September 2012 Zomato expanded across India as well as
other parts of world like UAE, Sri Lanka, Qatar, United
Kingdom, South Africa covering 1,19,500 restaurants.
Zomato does not charge for basic listings but advertising
is chargeable. Banner ads by restaurants and event
management companies are chargeable. It also has fixed
revenue sharing tie ups with restaurants. Competitors of
Zomato are Burrp.com (India), Zagat.com and
Justreat.com (London) and Yelp.com (U.S.)
6. Snapdeal is an online retail website started by Kunal Bahl, a
Wharton graduate and Rohit Bansal, an alumnus of IIT Delhi
in 2010. It is an online marketplace, featuring a wide
assortment of products across categories like Electronics,
Fashion accessories, Apparel; and services like Restaurants &
Spas. It operates as an online marketplace, offering products
from more than 50,000 merchants or brands.
Snapdeal earns its revenues by buying goods in wholesale
for lesser price and selling them online in retail. It makes
money by letting other people sell their products through
advertisements. These advertisements could drive them profit
besides of the percentage they obtain from the sellers or
products that were posted to the site. It also earning by
acquisitions (Grabbon.com, esportsbuy.com) The
Competitors of Snapdeal are Flipkart.com.
8. Meritnation is an educational website launched by Pavan Chauhan, an
alumnus of IIM Bangalore in 2007. It gives guidance in studies and also
clears the concepts. The areas where the schools are of lower standard
and tutors can't be afforded, meritnation has proven to be a boon for the
students. It has many interesting features like Ask and Answer, Friends
Zone, Brain Teasers etc. It provides multimedia tutorials, interactive
exercises, assessment tools and exam help for school children and serves
across seven countries (India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait,
Qatar, Bahrain). Meritnation has raised INR 30 crore from Info Edge,
which runs the job search engine site Naukri.com. It also runs
advertisements on its site to raise money. Competitors of Meritnation are
tutorvista.com, studymode.com and extramarks.com which work on
similar concept as that of meritnation.com.
11. JustDial is an Indian company providing local search
services over the Phone, Web, Mobile and SMS founded by
V.V.S. Mani. Users are required to call a common number
and simply tell the human operator what service they are
looking for. Texts and email alerts are then sent to users
listing the best options around them.
Justdial makes money by charging the Company cone-time
registration fee of INR 5,000 and an annual fee of INR 1,000
from the reseller. The registration fee is recognized when the
contract with the reseller is finalized and the annual fee is
recognized. The Major competitors of Justdial are
Sulekha.com, AskLaila.com, Zatse.com and Askme.com
13. WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a
content-management system (CMS) based on PHP and
MySQL, which runs on a web hosting service. It is founded by
Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. WordPress also features
integrated link management; a search engine–friendly, clean
permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple
categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and
articles.
Wordpress makes money through web hosting ( pricing for
WordPress VIP Hosting starts at $15,000 per month), Google
Adsense, VideoPress. The Competitors of Wordpress are
Hubspot, Joomla, Druple and Blogger.
16. Pinterest was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra
and Evan Sharp. It is a pinboard-style photo-sharing
website that allows users to upload, save, sort and manage
theme-based image collections such as events, interests and
hobbies, known as pins, and other media content (e.g.
videos) through collections known as pinboards. Users can
browse other pinboards for images, "re-pin" images to their
own pinboards, or "like" photos.
Pinterest generates revenue through branded pins, branded
campaign, outbound links, highlighted pins (small sticker
affixed to their post), hidden affiliated links. Competitors
of Pinterest are Dribble.com, Gentlemint.com,
Postwire.com and Designspiration.com
From social-media point of view, facebook is a
considerable competition to pinterest.
19. Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in
2005. It is a social news and entertainment website where
registered users submit content in the form of either a link or a
text post. Other users then vote the submission "up" or "down",
which is used to rank the post and determine its position on the
site’s pages and front page. Content entries are organized by
areas of interest called "subreddits". It’s users are often
referred to as “Redditors”.
Reddit makes money through advertising, sponsored links
(which are also a kind of advertising), and through the sale of
Reddit Gold accounts which carry Reddit gold to get access to
exclusive stuff. Competitors of Reddit are BuzzFeed which
combines technology platform for detecting viral contents and
Digg which is a news aggregator aiming to select stories
specifically for internet audience such as science, trending
political issues, and viral internet issues.
21. GoDaddy was founded as Jomax Technologies by Bob
Parson in 1997. However in 1999, its name changed to
Godaddy to make it easy to remember. It provides services
likes Domain name and web hosting registration, Domain
name transfer, Website building and it also work as sales and
tech support provider to clients.
It makes money by charging fees ranging from INR 200 to
INR 600 per year for domain name registration and charges
money for website building and hosting. The competitors of
GoDaddy are Networksolutions, Bluehost,Dreamhost and
Enom.
23. CONCLUSION
All the websites discussed have their unique style of
working. They provide a variety of services and
cater to a large number of end users. They also face
a lot of competition and in the end, it is the final end
users i.e. “Netizens” who are the winners.
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