Archive for Google India
You are browsing the archives of Google India.
Google Apps Gets Apps Marketplace – Boon For SME’s?
Apps marketplace seems to be the new fad be it mobile apps or web apps. The latest one to join this bandwagon is none other than Google Apps for enterprises. Google Apps in the last three years has reached over 2 million businesses across the globe and hence this new app marketplace is an important [...]
Google Transit Makes Delhi Metro Commute Easier
Reportedly, DMRC and Google India announced their partnership through Google Transit, to provide complete information on Delhi Metro schedules and routes. Google transit, launched in 2007 is a service integrated with Google maps helping users find out the directions by public transit. Initially launched in United States, China, Japan and Europe now the service has [...]
Updated: IPL-3 Cricket Live Streaming On YouTube – Signs Up For 2 Year Deal!
Updated: Google India tweets that this will be the first major sporting tournament to be streamed live on youtube platform. Youtube would showcase 60 matches over45 days. Its also stated that this is 2 year exclusive deal with Youtube for all IPL matches. The feed shown on youtube will be an exclusive feed not available [...]
Now Google India Wants To Provide Your Website A Clinic… As Usual For Free!
No doubt we all have become die hard users of Google services. Plenty of reasons for this. Some of which being free, good and reliable service, easy-to-use and clutter free interface, speed, cutting edge innovation and what not. As if all this was not enough, Google India now wants to help you with your website [...]
Google Launches Contest ‘Hai Baaton Main Dum?’ To Drive Hindi UGC Content
Just yesterday we blogged on how its important to make investment in regional content and we also gave the example of Google and its Google bus which was taking the internet to the masses. Now it seems google has gone a step further and launched a contest to increase UGC content for hindi on the [...]
Google Wants To Be Your 3G/Wimax Provider
While 3G/Wimax might have been delayed for the nth time the interest its generating from all parts of the world for India is something else.
Now it seems that even Google is looking at broadband wireless access (BWA) in the country and may participate in the upcoming 3G/WiMAX auction with an Indian partner.
Google’s interest may stem [...]
Google Does A Me Too – Announces Inclusion Of Twitter Updates In Search
Just a few hours ago we reported that Microsoft is soon to announce a deal with both Facebook and twitter to include their search updates within search results for Bing. It seems google has followed the move in just a matter of hours and Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience has [...]
Google’s New Jump Feature – Find What You’re Looking For
Google’s back with more improvements. Off late, Google’s been making the news on a regular basis. Check out all the WATBlog Google stories here. However, their focus on social media notwithstanding, the whole thing about Google being a Search Engine is disappearing. They recently tried reworking their infrastructure withCaffeine. But if you look at why Google’s [...]
Google Q2 Results: Marginal Topline Growth,PPC prices sees revival
Google announced its Q2 june results logging a paltry 3% (YoY) growth in revenues to $5.52 billion compared to last year’s $5.37 billion.The Net Income was seen at $1.48 billion registering a growth of 18% compared to 1.25 billion a year ago period.
Revenues from Google owned sites was seen at $3.65 billion,66% of total revenues-a [...]
Google India Plans Expansion, Integration And Education, As They Launch Free Voice-Based Service
With the internet medium moving rapidly Google India plans to focus on three important brackets in 2009-’10. Parminder Singh, Business Head, Google India spoke to exchange4media.com about their priorities to expand their business. He also added saying that their major focus is on education, integration and expansion. “An initiative like ‘Digital Base’ – where we [...]
Blogs Cannot Be Monitored All The Time: Google India
In what seems to be Google’s argument against recent cases for its blogging platform referring to illegitimate and defamatory content, Google India has stated that it cannot monitor its blogging platform all the time in short it cannot be held liable for the content for various reasons.
Google’s argument?
The company has carried its argument to Bombay [...]
Chinese Government Warns Google To Clean Up! Again!
According to Google “all necessary steps” will be taken to make its Chinese language portal, Google.cn, free of pornographic links.
By now almost everyone is aware of the Great Firewall of China, the Chinese Government’s mega plan of internet censorship and surveillance. So what’s the relationship between China and Search Engines like? Well, to say the [...]
Google Woos Advertisers To Advertise On Orkut – Launches Solutions For Large Advertisers
Google has invited advertisers to advertise on Orkut via its blog and also announced a dedicated page for advertisers to know why to advertise one orkut. The only two dedicated pages of geographies for advertising are Brazil and India and there is a generic page for the rest of the world. This shows that India [...]
Google India launches transliteration bookmarklets for 5 local languages
India is the home of a mind boggling 1,652 number of languages. And it’s a shame that the vernacular content in India is still in its very nascent stage, with all content being produced in English. Google India in the past has been spending a lot of effort in promoting the use of vernacular content in the [...]
Google Bucks The Trend With Q1-09 Results.
Google again reinstated the fact that web 2.0 story has been unaffected by the turmoil in the world economy by reporting revenues of US $5.51 billion for the quarter ended march-09, up 6 percent YoY but slightly down QoQ.
The net income saw 8% growth YoY and stands at $1.42 billion with an EPS of [...]