Now Google Expresses Interest In UID – How Will The Project Benefit From This?
Just yesterday, we saw Yahoo being interested in the Unique Identification Project. As quoted by Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz, “We met the Prime Minister today and discussed among other things, how Yahoo can help the Government in the project.” Looks like several more giants will be coming in soon.
As said in our last post, under such circumstances when everyone has expressed their interests, then how could Google just sit and stare. It started with Microsoft wishing to help the Government in the UID project followed by Intel, Yahoo and now its none other than Google.
Google has also made it clear that they are interested to play a major role in the forthcoming project. There are several reasons as to why such tech giants are interested in this project. Huge databases to organize the Unique ID’s, integration with different Governmental agencies and the online authentication makes it much more than just a project because of which such tech-giants are keen enough to be a part of of it.
Google India said that they were in talks with the Indian authorities. “We are good at software development, hosting data on massive scale, and have the capability to run systems and services without being concerned about latency issues. In fact, we run the largest computing platform, and that can be helpful,” Mr Rao said.
In addition to this, Mr. Rao also emphasized on the fact that they have built the Voice- Based Search technology that may help recognize Indian accents clearly indicating that Google has all the expertise that one may need in a project on such a large scale.
Although nothing has been confirmed by Mr. Nilekani as to which company or companies are going to be involved after so many tech giants have expressed their interests, he must be happy to see all of them ready to come along and as he said recently, “Yahoo and other Internet companies such as Amazon and Google have built massive Internet applications which support millions of users… When one looks at a project the scale of UID, it is good to share such experiences.”
With Google in the list, UID seems to be getting all the attention it needed. Needless to say, because of such big names being associated with the project, one can definitely say that whoever be involved, the project is going to be a success.
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