Jul 17
Which blog platforms are the most popular among Indian Bloggers? We updated our crawler to identify blogging platforms, and it gave us some interesting stats:

Surprisingly, we only have a single active blog from bigadda on IndiBlogger, out of 9k blogs (No, it’s not Big B’s blog!)
Not surprising are the stats showing the popularity of blogger vs. wordpress. Hopefully wordpress will catch up soon!

Thanks goes to Amit from Webyantra for this idea!

July 19th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I am bit disappointed to see this trend.
Wordpress has more power and potential and it should have been beaten Blogger by a huge number.
July 20th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
This is just because most of the bloggers in India are still on the amateurish level or have personal blogs. To be able to unleash the full power of wordpress, you got to have a domain and server space of your own. The free version of wordpress sucks big time, at least compared Blogger, anyway.
By the way, I’m just curious. You guys do not have a single Yahoo 360 blog registered?
July 20th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
@Shayon – just 2 from Yahoo 360 which were approved by our moderation team, out of a whopping mega-total of 8.
July 20th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
i dont understand why wp is considered more powerful … i mean, isnt blogger waaaaaay more flexibe?
July 21st, 2009 at 1:43 am
I too was wondering what was special about wordpress until I shifted to wp.
My story is over here
http://www.devilsworkshop.org/how-wordpress-changed-my-blogging-career/
Check it out…
If you surely wanna develop your blogging career,… do shift to wp soon… you won regret 4 sure…
July 21st, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Blogger is my favourite. Because its simple. Everyone I know uses Blogger. If there is something I need to do to my Blogger Blog I just Google a solution which is so simple and easy and doable. Wordpress seems like a complicated and irritating platform for me to make and start a Blog on. Perhaps in the future I might consider it to be a better option. But as of Now BLOGGER is IT for me.
July 21st, 2009 at 4:35 pm
I prefer wordpress though I have an active blog on WordPress. Its actually cool and has lot many features than the blogger. But as Blogger was first in the market so that may be the reason of its popularity.