Guruji – A Website which claims to share knowledge and is the first crawler based search engine developed completely in India and designed to make search simple for Indian users. I was recently making a google search for a hindi movie review ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi where i found a sponsored ad which was for Guruji.com with the following Ad Details :
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Songs
Only on Guruji.com Music Search.
Type movie/singer name. Get Songs!
www.guruji.com
The Landing Page of this Ad was this
Iam sure even if its Google Search Engine or Yahoo Search, no one would directly offer Mp3 online with options like Listen to Mp3, Download Mp3 etc, but may be this specific search engine Guruji.com has got no fears in offering illegal version of these Mp3 songs. Even though the songs are not hosted with them, still its not fair to make the Mp3 directly available on a popular growing search engine and also promoting them through Google Adwords.
Generally these search engine gains should block access to these illegal Mp3 download/sharing files and try to avoid illegal music downloading and follow the music piracy laws, but these people are promoting illegal stuff for just gaining more users and expanding their brand.
Ronak says
Amit, If you know they have also started CPC Ad Network. And They only offer publisher account to illegal MP3 download sites!!
TechMag says
Thats very sad..
Never thought such bad behaviour from such a famous site.
sam says
All search engines only aggregate relevant websites and point the user to the website that is most relevant. Guruji is doing exactly the same, aggregating relevant music websites and pointing the user to the source. There is nothing illegal in it. Google does exactly the same. Type “hindi song mp3” in Goggle and see the list of websites. Amit Bhavani – it’s time you did some research before you write these half-baked blog posts. It’s not the search engine that needs to be stopped, it’s website with questionable content. Same is true if a user types “how to murder, how to kill”. Search engines only point to the source, they have no way to know if the source is questionable, all they know is, if the source is relevant to the user.
Ronak says
Amit, Point to be noted. Sam is partial right, Guruji is a Search Engine and like every SEs crawl the web, Guruji is also crawling websites.
But Sam this point should be noted also – Google(or other SE) is 99% automated and Guruji is totally manually SE as you can see Singer name and Movie name beside Songs name. I don’t think Guruji Bot can know this automatically. These stuff should be added manually. It means Guruji knows from where content is coming. And If Guruji want they can neglect these illegal stuff!!
Anit Parmar says
This is all for make website popular and increase alexa rank. This is 100% illegal site.
kavitha says
how to download songs in guruji.com
deeksha says
very sad,,,,,,,,,,,,,i never thought that dis vil happen
piano software says
Download the MP3 will be pay back for it!
sac says
Mr. Amit who is legal at internet age. Are image copyright is followed. ? The stupid IPRS (license of music online ) charging Rs. 10 lakh per year. & 10% growth each year.
Why anyone should only earn to pay those ? Any website can earn mre than 10 lakh per year where only google pays better & no other option for publishers..
If they start charging rs. 1 lakh or something then it will better
maya says
heard that t-series has sued them…their ad network is crap and so is the search engine
ananya says
how can i download songs from guruji please someone help me.
Freemusicmasti says
Guruji is bad…Its illegal
Sameer says
Sam is completely Wrong. A legal suit is filed by T-series on Guruji. Phulki.com (some IITD guy based in US) in the past was doing the same and then were questioned by http://www.saavn.com/ and they were paid huge money by Svaan who then acquired Phulki. Aggregator is also equally wrong.Some illegal sites of indian music : http://www.songs.pk, http://www.dishant.com, http://www.raaga.com
Raaga folks were caught by PPL bodies of India but guess there is something black and white deals were performed. Raaga illegally streams T-Series Content.
Legal sites of music :bllywoodhungama.com, hummaa.com, imusti.com, in.com
The only legal aggregator is http://www.google.co.in/music
Cheers
kiash says
those sites are really good. I using song.pk for a long time! Though those are illegal but i love those. Because those sites saves our time as well as money! 🙂
NetworkSolutions Review says
Guruji is not at all a good resource. There is nothing wrong said. Being illegal is always illegal.
Soniya says
GuruJi guys scammed me. I put their banners on my sites and they paid nothing. Be ware from them. They are clever.
Anit says
same with me too.
Snehashish says
Its quite shocking that my most favorite site was found out illegal. And i had been using it for last 4 yrs!! Now I wait for an equivalent site that would emerge as powerful as guruji but legal of course…
They have disheartened their thousands of fans like me…
roop kukar says
Amitabh’s son Abhishek is Hero not my son, and Abhishek’s grand son will be hero, not mine, ………………..
in bollywood, it’s family business, not equal opportunity employment…
so why should their fake talent get all the fake worth, other people should also enjoy, these bollywood people are mafia, a software engg. who makes website earns in lakhs a year but these stupid singers who sing a song for 5 minutes, should earn in billions ?
Jasmeet Singh says
Oh! i was wondering why this site suddenly got removed from the internet. Got to know about this just now . But Guruji.com was the best site that i have ever used for Songs downloads. The concept used by them was just brilliant. Bad Luck for guruji !!
Mukesh says
Now they got what they deserve- fall in visitors .. 🙂 alexa rank 1200 to 42000
more then 100 Time less visitors
Nitin Rustagi says
Hi Amit,
These websites are not eligible to even play the online streaming songs too. In india you can either listen songs online or directly buy mp3 song from legal sites.