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Yahoo! India was in news recently for alleged plagiarism. Yahoo had lately launched a Malayalam language Portal that featured blog entries from different blogs by Malayalam dialect bloggers.
Santhosh Pillai wrote to GigaOm:
Recently Yahoo! India launched a Malayalam Language Portal (along with other Indian languages), but they copied content from many Malayalam bloggers which were protected under Creative Common Licensing. None of the bloggers were contacted and it was a rude shock to us that giants like Yahoo! would do this.

The thing came into limelight when at least 5 recipes from her Suryagayatri’s Kariveppila blog were taken and slightly modified to be placed on Yahoo’s Malayalam Portal. She has an entry on her blog that her content has been lifted up to Yahoo Malayalam (beta) without her consent.
Groups are looking for a solution but in vain. How can a renowned site like Yahoo can be so irresponsible. Though Yahoo [...]

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Designed and conceptualized on the lines of “The Weblog awards” the Indiabloggies have also started taking nominations for the best Indian blogs. There are 16 categories and panel of jury but the final say rest on the number of votes that public polls for a particular blogs.
The blogsphere in India is pegged at 3.5 million by the Windows Live survey and even if we take conservative estimates on numbers 1 million bloggers or more are the final numbers that everyone will agree to. Blogs in India are still in novice state but in coming years as awareness grows more and more crowd will join in from the 100 crore+ population.
Off late these awards were marred by many controversies but still it’s a good thing as they recognize good work and also bring blogs to limelight.
The nominations are open and check out how to nominate blogs here and to [...]

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