Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is Talaash?

  1. Talaash is a mobile application that is intended to bring back friends, who have once shared their place of education, in a common social media platform.
  2. Talaash only allows to connect with such people and in future a user would be able to
    • Collect all their Alumni, from different institutions, in one place.
    • Collaborate for business (to enhance theirs and support their friend’s business).
    • Find and refer jobs for users.
    • Get feedback about an institution while searching educational career for one’s family member or themselves.

2. Who uses Talaash?

Everyone who has taken education from an institution and are a part of an Alumni.

3. Why Talaash?

Talaash provides the user to integrate their communication with their friends without

  • Having a limit in the count of group members
  • Sharing their personal details like mobile numbers
  • Any content that is unintended for them such as:
    1. 1. Politics
    2. 2. Violent and abusive
    3. 3. Sexually explicit
    4. 4. Suggested topics that they have not subscribed to
    5. 5. Unwanted advertisement

4. Where can I find Talaash to download and use?

Effective from December 12, 2022, Talaash would be available on App Store and Play Store to download user for free.

5. How to register?

  1. Users can register to Talaash by entering their details such as name
    • Name as in educational records
    • Year of education
    • Level of education
  2. User should register with a mobile number for security verification (OTP)
  3. Every registered user would have the account activated after a quick verification with their place of education to avoid fake profiles.

6. What is my Talaash username?

Your mobile number used while registering the account is the username in Talaash

7. What happens if I uninstall Talaash App?

The user can download the App and login using the mobile number

8. How can a user find their batchmates/Alumni in Talaash?

Talaash do not seek information other than the user inputs while registering in Talaash. Based on the educational data, one enters, Talaash will find the matching profiles and displays them on the user’s Friends Zone.

9. How to find your Alma Mater (Place of Education) in Talaash?

  1. Talaash preregisters the schools and colleges available on public domain country wise.
  2. The list would be available in a drop-down menu based on the country the user chooses in alphabetical order.

10. What happens when the user is not finding the institution in the drop-down list while registering?

In case, a user is not finding their Alma mater in the drop-down list of Talaash, the user may request registration by visiting the website talaashclub.com. This website is intended to allow the users to learn about Talaash and also to interact with our team on any concern with the application.

11. What are the Privacy Terms?

Talaash usage and privacy terms are mentioned in the application user info section and also on talaashclub.com.

12. Are there any advertisements in Talaash?

Talaash Newsfeed, which is the home page for a user, do not publish any form of advertisements. All advertisements ( if any) are assigned in the Market Zone which is intended to do business.

13. What is the benefit of Talaash to its users, Alumni, and Institutions?

  1. Talaash provides a platform one to have all their Alumni in a common space.
  2. Also it allows in future to collaborate and get benefits in terms of work, business and education.
  3. When it comes to Institutions, Talaash allows to get back to all their alumni and use the potential of their Alumni strength to benefit their existing students.

14. Whom can you connect through Talaash?

Connections are those in the Friends Zone section of Talaash where you can create a close ring of friends from your Batch buddies and Alumni. These are your handpicked choice of friends who are also mutually willing to connect back to you.

15. Can I use Talaash by not connecting with individuals?

  1. Yes, In Talaash you can have all your friends at a safe distance by not connecting with them. Even though you are not connected, being a batch member , you can get information that are intended for general batch mates and alumni.
  2. Similarly, you can choose to post any feedback that you wish to communicate in general with you Alumni or batch mates.

16. How will I get my updates from Batch Buddies?

When a batch buddy is posting in their news feed and have chosen to be visible to his/her batch buddy you can see them.

17. What is the advantage of Talaash other than connecting Alumni?

  1. Connecting to Alumni is the start of getting into Talaash.
  2. Beyond connecting to Alumni Talaash is trying to bring the sanctity in the society which is build through education.
  3. For the development of an individual in today’s society, Talaash is trying to bring the humane touch to the social media by friends helping each other through
    • Promoting one’s business
    • Helping one with a job and career growth
    • Assisting with higher education through social connection of friends.

18. What is Friends Zone?

Friends Zone lists down all your

  • Connections – who are mutually connected with a user through an invitation sent by a user or accepted from a friends
  • Batch Buddies – the other users in Talaash who studied with you in the same educational institution having the same level of education at the same time. This may be your classmate or a batchmate
  • Alumni – the users in Talaash who have studied in the same educational institution as yours before or after you.

19. What is Market Zone?

Market Zone is a future advancement of Talaash where in a user can do business with his/her connection, batch buddies, alumni and the rest of Talaash of users.

20. What is Career Zone?

Career zone is also planned for later enhancement of Talaash which will have provisions

  • To finds jobs for an individual
  • To post a job or vacancy by an individual
  • To seek help for higher education from Alumni of interested institutions.