Comments on: Indian websites haven’t earned my trust

By: Sheha Shayari

Sheha Shayari — Mon, 07 May 2007 11:20:22 +0000

I have already unsusbcribed to moneycontrol.com.

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:49:04 +0000

I really enjoyed reading Saumitri’s comment. What a breeze of fresh air!!

By: Saumitri

Saumitri — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:07:08 +0000

Firstly, in a country of several billion we have been brought up to care only for a few things and neglect the rest - and its increasing with more and more parents having lesser and lesser time/patience to spend with their children.

Secondly, our primarily “utilitarian” education aimed at specifically engineering jobs is creating a whole generation insensitive to “human experiences”. As you will notice in the other comments, it just seems that everyone thinks s/he is smart enough if they can suggest an alternative or “jugad”. None of us seem willing to appreciate the problem, face it and look at means to rectify it.

If you have a look at the guys who create these websites - most of them are either engineering or some multimedia guys, with almost no contribution from any of the social science, arts, law, design or human experience disciplines. Infact, most of the business heads in India find it hard to fathom what “use” (read utilitarian) such disciplines could have in the creation of a website or e-commerce portal or even a software product for that matter. Without expert advice, the engineers and multimedia /web designers do whatever they think is right, possible and “smart” (can’t blame them).

Finally, none of us complain. Tolerant, undemanding public that we are, we regularly vote scoundrels to government positions, bribe our way through all our public dealings and never ever worry about how our taxes are utilized (and we don’t like to pay either). In such a situation, how can one expect us to complain or demand service of websites, of all things? So, neither we, not the guys who make the websites care.

By: Biswajit

Biswajit — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:40:55 +0000

Your conclusion is based on experience with just one website.!!

By: ila

ila — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 05:58:44 +0000

CNN-IBN and TOI recently carried out online petitions for Bombay Blast Victims. And would you know, every click required an email id that went into their database and from the next day - wham bam spam !!
So American companies can bend the rules in India but catch them doing it to their own citizens. This is akin to a corporate governance issue and its something CNN-CNBC should be looking at . Dont blame the homegrown websites for this alone.

By: Shashikant

Shashikant — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:36:27 +0000

I guess you are talking about moneycontrol.com. In spite of having a parent like CNBC, a well-known name, this site is perfect example of bad netizen. Their site is disgustingly ill-designed which makes it unreadable. I made mistake of registering with them long time back. Till the date I continue to get “How to play XYZ sector?” spam at least 20 times a week. I’ve trained Gmail to classify it as spam and it works like charm. This site does not respect anybody’s privacy and preferences.

By: Prasanna

Prasanna — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 02:27:44 +0000

Trackback..
http://exhilarator.blogspot.com/2006/07/and-how-much-they-respect-you_24.html

By: Balaji

Balaji — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 18:45:58 +0000

Hi Basab,

You can check out the website http://www.way2wealth.com (or) http://www.valueresearchonline.com.

I do maintain my portfolio in both these websites and they don’t spam me and give me quality service.

There is a website called http://www.moneycontrol.com, a CNBC India website albeit a good one, but they do send out mails to you. I have never tried unsubscribing them, so don’t know whether it will work or not. but it is a very good website and its content is also good.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Balaji M