Guruji.com appoints R. Ramaraj as Board Member
Guruji.com, India's first internet search engine that provides the Indian consumer an enhanced Indian search experience today announced the appointment of Mr. R. Ramraj , co-founder and ex-CEO of SIFY Limited as its Board Member.
-- Guruji.com, India’s first internet search engine that provides the Indian consumer an enhanced Indian search experience today announced the appointment of Mr. R. Ramraj , co-founder and ex-CEO of SIFY Limited as its Board Member.
As a Board Member of guruji.com, Mr.Ramaraj will contribute to the growth of Guruji.com. Guruji.com will use Mr. Ramraj's his past experience to chart guruji’s growth path. He will help guruji's young management team in all aspect of building a successful internet company
Mr. Anurag Dod Founder and CEO of guruji.com said “It gives me immense pleasure to welcome Mr. Ramraj on our board and I am sure his vast experience in the internet domain specifically and his knowledge of building a company grounds up will be of great help in shaping the future of guruji.com”.
Mr. R Ramraj said “I am happy to be part of guruji.com. They havea vision for a great search engine company and already have put together a very exciting team. I see a big growth in the Indian search space and guruji.com with its unique offering well placed to carve a substantial niche to itself”.
Ramaraj is a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras and an MBA from the IIM, Calcutta. Beginning his career in Sales and Marketing, Ramaraj went on to pioneer the retail marketing of computers in India by establishing Computer Point in 1984. He was a Founder Director of Microland Ltd before a stint in cellular telephony as Director, Sterling Cellular up to 1996.
Ramaraj was recognized as the ‘Evangelist of the Year’ at the India Internet World Convention in September 2000. And in 2001, in a CNET.com poll in India, Ramaraj was voted the IT Person of the Year 2000. He was invited by the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan to be a member of UN’s Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG)
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About Guruji.com
Guruji.com is India's first internet search engine. Founded by two IIT Delhi graduates, and backed by sequoia capital the company focuses on developing search products for enhancing the Indian user experience. Crawl Technology, used by guruji.com, is a complex computing system that crawls the web identifying Indian content using sophisticated algorithms. The technology is built on a distributed architecture that can scale with the growing needs of the users. It crawls the web, indexes the data that it gathers and provides the user with a simple keyword based interface to get to the data quickly and efficiently. Guruji.comaims to havethe most comprehensive search for Indian content on the web. To learn more about Guruji.com visit www.guruji.com.