42 Million Indian netizens by March 2007
Internet users in India - 37 million at last count in September - will grow to 42 million by March, estimates the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IMAI).
Indians also undertake over a billion searches each month, according to a report - ‘The State of Search Engine Marketing in India’ - by the IMAI, a trade body of online content, advertising, e-commerce, mobile content and advertising industry.
The IMAI said it did not get any data from search engines or advertisers, both “famously quiet about disclosing their numbers”.
The report said that 85 percent of all individual travel now starts first from a trip to the web and that a person can never have too many ‘keywords’ for a website.
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