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Car Dekho chosen as Website of the Year India 2012

The winners of the 2012 edition of the Website of the Year India awards – India’s most important people’s choice award for websites – are revealed on www.websiteoftheyear.co.in.

This year, 181 websites were nominated over 22 categories. More than 31000 votes were cast between the 15th of October and the 23st of November.

Car Dekho was chosen as ‘Website of the Year 2012’ in India because of its content, navigation, design and recommendation likelihood.

In each category there are two prizes to win: The title ‘Best Website’ is provided to the website with the highest average score on content, navigation, design and recommendation likelihood. The title ‘Most Popular Website’ is provided to the website with the highest number of votes.

The following websites are the winners of the 2012 Website of the Year India award:

Category Best Website Most Popular Website
Automotive Car Dekho Car Dekho
Career Freshersworld.com Naukri.com
Communities WAYN.COM WAYN.COM
Dating Flirt.com Shaadi.com
Educational W3Schools IGNOU
Entertainment YouTube YouTube
Finance ICICI Bank State Bank of India
Games Miniclip.com Free Online Games
Health & Well being Medindia Health India
Charities UNICEF Give India
Housing & Interior PropertyWala.com PropertyWala.com
News & Information The Hindu Times of India
Government National Portal of India Indian Railway
Leisure & Travel Expedia IRCTC
Shopping YummyBay.com Flipkart.com
Sports ESPN Cricinfo ESPN Cricinfo
Telecom Skype MTNL Mumbai
TV & Radio Star Plus NDTV
Comparison PolicyBazaar.com PolicyBazaar.com
Weather & Traffic Google Maps Google Maps
Search & Find Google Google
Mobile Websites Nokia India Mobile Samsung India Mobile

The Website of the Year India award is the online people’s choice award initiative by online research agency MetrixLab.