Okay, so there is some good news and some bad news.

First the bad news. For the past 4-5 months or so, I have been working on a top-secret ideas(outright) project that was to fulfil my life-long dream of entering the indian e-commerce market  – Without giving away too many details about this top-secret project – , I was working on building a shopping search-engine for the Indian e-retail space.

There was never a thefind or shopzilla in India, and the Indian e-retail consumer never really had a one-stop search engine where they can browse all online stores for whatever they want. I wanted to fill this vacuum with the said top-secret project.

Today, I learned that Amazon, the Internet’s largest e-retail company has launched today a product specifically tailored to fit the India e-retail market – it’s called junglee.com and a lot of it is like some of the things my team and I are working on.

Amazon has launched it’s first shopping search engine and it’s for the Indian market. That’s also the good news – Amazon, a company that I really really like; is entering India for the first time, and it’s going to set a standard and spread awareness – for me – about my future business! How awesome is that?

Junglee takes products from Indian e-retailers, lists them on their search engine and let’s the consumer do the price comparison, product discovery, etc. It’s pretty cool – it’s the Indian version of shopzilla marries thefind. it’s also free for sellers, while they are selling amazon product ads on junglee, that’s entirely optional and sellers don’t have to pay for clicks or to have their products listed on the search engine. I’m really looking forward to people discovering and starting to use junglee …it’s pretty exciting that e-retail in India is beginning to mature.