In one of my earlier post, I had covered some problems which I am facing with Shaadi.com, so I went ahead and subscribed to bharatmatrimony premium service too, so now I am a paid member of both sites, have used them for over 15+ hours atleast and have spent lot of time exploring features, profiles etc.

So here is my comparison of both matrimonial websites, Shaadi.com vs BharatMatrimony.com

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This is not the first time this has happened when the “paid” employees and commentators of Indyarocks have made spam comments on mwolk or on the web. Here is another one of it

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If you are a paid user of shaadi.com, I am sure you too must have noticed the possibilities of improvement in Shaadi.com, I mean after spending hours and hours you can barely see any unique profiles, for some unexplained reason, shaadi.com keeps on showing same profiles over and over again every time you logs in, how difficult it can be to not to show the profiles which you have already seen or to have a history tab which can show the last 100 profiles which a person has seen ?

2 more things which I am not able to understand about shaadi is

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If you are a member of Shaadi.com and looking to upgrade your profile to Premium membership, which can cost you anywhere in between Rs 1200 to Rs 5000, you have an option to save 20%-30% money by using Shaadi.com coupon code GDPM2530

If this Shaadi.com coupon don’t work, you can check http://www.retailmenot.com/view/shaadi.com for more working coupon codes

I was looking to buy The lost symbol of dan brown in India and as obviously will prefer to order it online. now I have purchased many books online through flipkart and indiaplaza, and I always had good experience in purchasing it. The book though came late for indiaplaza was well packed and delivered and was in good condition.

As far as prices are concerned, there is nothing much these online stores can do though many a times I do feel paying Rs 800 and Rs 1000 is very costly for these books.Anyway if you want to know more about how to buy books online, you can check this article which covers online books stores in India.

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Every rail ticket has a unique PNR number, which helps you to determine all the details of your reservation, and also allows you to cancel the ticket, in case the reservation is not confirmed. There are basically three ways to check your PNR status; let’s take a look at each one of them.

The easiest way to check the PNR status is through your mobile phone. Type PNR followed by your PNR number, and send the message to either 5676747 or 54959. You can do one more thing, that is, type IRPNR followed by your PNR number and send the message to 57886.

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Before we go into the details of checking the PNR status, it is essential to understand what exactly is PNR. Passenger Name Record or PNR is a piece of data that is stored in the database of the Computer Reservation System of the Indian Railways. Basically, it contains the journey details of the passenger. From the technical perspective, PNR has five parts viz.

• Passenger Name
• Name and address of the travel agent
• Ticket details
• The journey details of at least one segment
• Name of the person who is making the booking

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I am not using orkut much for months now but I just found that they have added a new Feature of Promote where you can promote your messaages to everyone. It is just mass messsge sending which was so HOT in myspace back in 2005 and then spam bots took over.

I am still not very sure why it took google to introduce this feature so late (like 5 years late) when this was already there in other such social apps. One thing which google might want to take care of is spamming as phishers would love to hack orkut accoutns to spam everyonce profile.

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IRC booking is an easy way to make reservation in any train of the Indian Railways. You can book any type of ticket here, from any place and that too without spending countless hours standing is a queue. Here is a step-by-step procedure of Indian Railways Corporation booking, let’s take a look.

• Go to the IRC site and register yourself. After that, login with the chosen username and password.
• ‘Plan my Travel’ webpage will appear; here you have to select the boarding and destination station, date of journey, class, and ticket type.
• A list of trains between the two stations will appear. Before booking the ticket, you can verify the availability of berth, and also check the fares.
• When you click at the ‘Book Tickets’ Button, the ‘Train Reservation’ webpage will appear where you would have to fill up the details of the passenger.

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If you are looking to see the list of Indian online web startups, you may want to look at http://www.indianwebstartups.com/ which lists many of Indian web startups.

The site is new but I think it lists most of indian online web startups, another such site is Startupduniya, its a 2 year old blog owned by pranav and lists many web 2.0 startups. The good thing about startupduniya is that it do not have user submitted content but pranav himself writes the review so the sales pitch angle gets out of the picture.

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