Gogola gets website
By Techgirl

Google is my favourite search engine and it has 80 percent of the market in India.

Not surprisingly, a number of Indian companies are trying to surf the soaring success of Google.

Techgoss had published a photo in 2008 of a road side stall ‘GoGola’ in Mumbai which looked suspiciously like Google, but was selling golas and sherbets.  At that time I had asked if Google had branched off due to cash inflow pressures.

In 2011, a Techgoss Tipster spotted Version 2.0 of ‘GoGola’.  It was now called ‘Go Gola’ and has moved up from being a street vendor to now being based in an upmarket shopping mall in Thane, Mumbai.  Within the mall, the shop sign has a space between Go and Gola in case Google got the wrong idea (right idea?).

In Jan, 2012, GoGola has been spotted outside the IBM Building in Gurgaon (picture above).  Not only is the franchise spreading to different Indian cities, it now even has its own website gogolaindia.com published on the board just above the Trade Marked GoGola.

How long before the Indian GoGola sues the American Google for a similar look and feel?

Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog techgirltalk.blogspot.com.  Techgirl has been ejected from Twitter for satirizing an Indian Minister.  Her satire blog has links to her Times of India interview detailing her being kicked out of Twitter, and then being invited back.