May 08, 2001 03:22 PM
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Sify.com is one of the most popular consumer portals and belongs to the house of Satyam infoway Limited. The portal has many a pioneering initiative with regard to shopping, managing ones financial portfolio, and brand promotions, in addition to mail, messaging and search.
Satyam Infoway Limited is the largest Integrated Internet and e-Commerce services companies offering end-to-end solutions with a comprehensive range of products delivered over a common backbone infrastructure. A significant part of the Company’s revenue is derived from corporation (B2B) which include corporate connectivity, network and communications solutions and Internet Solutions, such as consulting, execution, management and hosting.
SIFY’s Internet access business has, more than 400,000 subscribers accessing through 46 locations serving more than 220 cities across India, representing an estimated 9 installed PC base in India. The customer care processes of the Company’s retail ISP business are ISO 9002. Satyam Infoway consumer portal, https://sify.com, has 130 million page views.
It has channels on astrology, music, entertainment, festivals, games, greetings, travel, finance, sports, classifieds, weather, youth – in fact, the same routine channels India-centric portals have been offering. So nothing new out here except that the ones on Education and Nepal. Besides conducting online tests this sites has GMAT, CAT and IIT screening, it also has a section on e-learning where courses are offered. The channel on Nepal provides news and other information Himalayan kingdom.
The youth and the travel channels also as interesting. The site has option for both keyword and directory search.
Editions like Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu are provided. There are links to the group’s other websites also. The site also provide forum to discuss the issues of the day. 15 to 21, Return 2 India are youth channels and quite interesting.
The Sify instant messenger is quite fast and it also has voice chat.
Perhaps the one thing that keeps a user’s interest alive in exploring the content. The layout is also quite good though it takes some time to figure out what services are available on the site.But ,if you are interested in e-mail avoid this site .
There are a few contests which promise exciting prizes, and also a ‘look into these eyes’ category and win prizes. Prizes include t-shirts, movie tickets and gift hampers.
‘Worth a click’ takes you to portal like Prized Jobs. com, Seek and source .com, Netventuresites.com Etc,.
