Telugu "Hyderabad": హైదరాబాద్ or హైదరాబాదు

[clipper]

Allright! How many Telugu scholars do we have out here?

Wikipedia says Hyderabad is హైదరాబాదు. (30k Google Results)

Another source I have says it's spelled హైదరాబాద్. (100k Google Results)

I've got the latter.com (100k).

All opinions are welcome, so let me know what you think.

[camarro]

probably two versions of the same name.
yours seem to be good and so does the other, i've found that google results
aren't really helpfull with indian languages at the moment, this will definitely be a market
where the native speakers have a big advantage, even with hindi some of the dictionaries translations don't seem to be of current use anymore and i'm guessing some
of the real used ones won´t even appear in any online dic.
nothing to do but reg them and wait for the best really, you can always try to find some native help but india has a lot of languages (18 official and many more unofficial)
for telegu you have to find a Andhra Pradesh native willing to help you, so probably easier way is to reg and wait a few years, personally i think i'm going to drop a lot of indian domains when i'm finally able to tell what is really worth something.

[clipper]

Thanks, camarro.

Yeah, I only have 3-4 Indian language names, none of which I'm sure about. I just figured the risk/return was too high to pass on the keywords I was able to find.

[kartik786]

హైదరాబాద్ is the right version i guess

[Rubber Duck]

Trust Google Search.

Distrust Wikipedia.