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As a
Board Member of guruji.com, Mr.Ramaraj will contribute to the growth
of Guruji.com.
Guruji.com will use Mr. Ramraj's vast experience as a leader of Sify
to chart its 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 have a
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).
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.com aims to have the most comprehensive search for Indian
content on the web. To learn more about Guruji.com visit
www.guruji.com.
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