I have set up a Google news alert for India tourism and that is how I came across this article at a website called domain-b.com. It talks about the Ministry of Tourism plans to spend Rs 20 Crores on online advertising. So far so good.
The article on domain-b also talks about the Incredible India Website. I have always been curious to know what kind of traffic does Incredible India gets. Quoting from the article-
The ministry’s Incredible India website, incredibleindia.org, has a daily average traffic of around 10 lakh visitors a day, with the ministry continuously innovating the tools on the site.
Have you ever tried searching for information on the Incredible India website? I have tried many times (I academically also try to write on tourism, hence this fascination with Incredible India) always using firefox. I almost always type Taj Mahal as my key words for search. And I do vaguely remember sometimes getting a result but most of the time the search function doesn’t work. Below is the screen shot of the result I got this time if I press the arrow near the search key (enlarge the picture to see the exact error).
That’s a shame! Especially when we have highly trained workers who can rectify this pretty fast.
Hrrrmph…..you guys have no idea of what subtleties and hints are about. That link which sometimes works and sometimes does not work tells the tourist what to expect when he visits. That was in fact a very smart programming team which put in the tip for those who understand hints.
I was going to type some nasty comment (abt the website) when I read what Paradox wrote and burst out laughing. I am very wary of asking my American friends to visit India just for that reason.
May be they better know or do not know.
Lol …is Paradox serious ?
Bindu, I too thought so.Paradox, what a comment! I wonder if you too blog? Vamsee, I know! That comment is just too good.Hobo and Lakshmi, your guess is as good as mine!Paradox, thanks once again for making all of us pause with that comment.
I had to laugh! I think paradox is serious, because we had the same problem in our company. Computer programmers don’t understand the net, seriously! It all looks fantastic, but it’s mostly unpractical and not bringing results. They don’t understand how keywords work and how one has to program so it does work.
Fida, I do not understand technology much but then I will go with Paradox and you.