More financial firepower for Guruji: the local search engine is reported to have received less than $10 million in funding from Sandstone Capital. Gujuji Co-founder and CEO Anurag Dod has been unavailable for comment. Guruji had received $7 million in seed funding from Sequoia in its first round, and was believed to be eying $10 million for their growth plans, including increasing the scope of their search engine to cover travel, flights, movies etc, multiple languages and mobile services. They have since launched search in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi.

Others in this space include Infomedia (funding from ICICI Ventures), JustDial (SAIF Partners, Tiger Fund), AskLaila (funding from Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Silicon Valley Bank), Zook from Ziva Software (funding from Nadathur), Burrp, OnYoMo and MIH’s Dwaar. And then there’s Google Local...