Conceived as a platform of job seekers and hiring managers to meet, the services went commercial in October 1997.

It all started when Sanjeev Bikhchandani quit his corporate job at Hindustan Milkfood Manufacturers (now Glaxo Smithkline) and founded two companies with his partner - Info Edge (for arranging database) and Indmark (pharmaceutical) .

[5] Info Edge offered salary reports to various categories of college graduates such as engineering and MBAs.

[7] During a visit to an IT fair at Delhi's fairground (Pragati Maidan), he was drawn to a stall written WWW Curious, Sanjeev found more about how the Internet worked.

[9] It was then Sanjeev took help from his friend Anil Lall and shared the thought of creating the website.

Jobseekers learned job search on Naukri was free, and soon more people started logging in.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ordered Abs IT Solutions to transfer the domain naukarie.com to Info Edge India.