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Update: #GOSF Is Turning Out To Be A Great Online Shopping Failure; Extends It By A Day

Update: Google has extended Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF) by one more day due to "overwhelming demand", however we also believe it was because the website was down through the first day. It also needs be pointed out that ad rates for the term GOSF is very high now and all e-commerce sites seem to be buying slots for that keyword. Dec 11: The GOSF website was created and maintained by GroupFMG which has not yet responded to our questions on issues that were plaguing the website. It's not clear what exactly went wrong because of which the website was unusable through out the day yesterday. Many people on Twitter blamed OSSCube for the failure, as it's name was shown with a Hello World message for a few hours yesterday on gosf.in. The company however said that it was not involved in building GOSF or any of its components. "The service provider that built the website has a contract with us to support a specific service which was not responsible/involved in the crash. However since then, the service provider has reached out to us to help restore/recover the site and we are supporting them in the process," Vineet Agrawal, Director for Alliance & Relations at OSSCube told Medianama. @SwatantraKumar #OSSCube turning around the site. It is a story of we supporting a messed up site! — OSSCube (@OSSCube) December 12, 2013 Note: OSSCube has deleted the above tweet. #OSSCube did not build #GOSF. in, but is helping a Google Contractor to restore. What a day! —…

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