As part of its India Get Your Business Online initiative, Google India claims to have created 2,500 websites for businesses in Delhi's Chandni Chowk marketplace, and has also set-up a dedicating directory listing page for them at Chandnichowknowonline.in, reports The Hindu BusinessLine. Google is offering business owners a domain name, website creation and hosting, free of charge for one year, together with its hosting partner, HostGator. Interestingly, the sites will also be integrated with Google maps, listing these businesses under various categories on them. The two companies plan to achieve a target of building 5,000 websites for shops in the Chandni Chowk area. After a period of one year, Google India would charge around Rs 700 annually for each site. The main listing page offers a big search bar for finding shops, and various categories for browsing shop listings. The listings also feature the business owner's name, shop address, and contact number, in addition to the link to its website. The websites are rather basic, much like microsites offered by business directory companies like Indiamart, JustDial and Getit, offering a brief description and a contact information page complete with location info on Google maps. Nehru Place IT Hub Note that this is not the first time, that a market has been taken online. Delhi's Nehru Place, the popular computer hardware and IT products marketplace, is online at npithub.com, where users can browse directory listings for shops in the market across business names, products that they offer and brands. But the site is…
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