Google plan rich in local content

“The reason we are doing it is that in India when you bring access to the internet it changes the lives of people”, Pichai said. At the event, Sundar announced that Mumbai Central will be the first to go online in January, with 100 more on the way by December 2016.

The telecom wing of the Indian Railway, RailTel, had signed an agreement with the subsidiary of Google India to provide wireless centers at four hundred stations throughout the country.

This was also a part of the assurance Google gave to Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he visited the search engine giant’s headquarters at Mountain View, Santa Clara County, in California in September this year.

The event of Google For India by Sundar Pichai was very successful and his maiden India trip after becoming Google CEO is going to be super excited as he will interact with DU students in the Shri Ram College of Commerce, DU.

New Delhi: While Google’s Project Loon has faced uncertainty with the government saying it could interfere with transmission signals of mobile telcos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the firm partners with existing telcos, to help boost their ability to service.

Real time cricket scores and videos by early next year, an expansive new campus in Hyderabad and an aggressive ramping up of recruitment in India – these were among a host of initiatives announced at a high-profile Google event Delhi today.

Pichai further added that the company’s rural internet initiative, Project Loon, will turn into a full-scale programme stretching across 300,000 villages in India. He also told about the Google’s plan to train India developers at 30 varsities.

Technology giant Google on Wednesday said it will increase investment in India and hire more people and set up a campus at Hyderabad, as the company is focussing on developing products here.

Google Maps VP Jen Fitzpatrick said India ranks third in terms of local guides on Google Maps. There are likely to be more users of Google’s Android software in India than in the United States next year, Google said in a statement. A year ago when I visited India, I really felt that startup culture had really taken hold here.

The Indian Railways on Wednesday sought suggestions from Google CEO Sunder Pichai regarding the use of new IT applications for the benefit of its passengers as well as freight users. India is one of the top five countries that has the most people using Offline Maps. India has always been key for Google and we continue to work towards evolving our product offerings for the unique needs of our users.