Google India's GOSF begins, website goes down within an hour


Google India's much-awaited Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF) began with a bang and took out the website on which it was being hosted. The festival began today and will go on till December 13. Through the 72-hour online shopping event, Google had planned to bring the country's leading e-commerce players under a common platform and target nearly 20 million Indian online shoppers.
The GOSF site on Wednesday morning.


As many as 200 partners were expected to offer the best deal to customers across across India over the next 72 hours.

However, less than an hour after the festival began, the host site has been down. Upon logging on to the site, a white screen appears with the text "Hello World".

Beyond that, there's nothing on the site.

In a tweet, Google India wrote:




Google India created the Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF) on December 12, 2012, in collaboration with a number of Indian online shopping portals.

The first edition of the Great Online Shopping Festival in 2012 was advertised on YouTube and via posts on Google Plus. Google had partnered with ecommerce sites such as Flipkart, HomeShop18, Snapdeal and Makemytrip, for the first edition of the festival.


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