Indian language tools search plugins released
India is unusual in having 23 official languages from English and Hindi to Kannada and Telugu – now the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has released ‘cross language search plugins’ which are intended to make search more readily available to the wider spectrum of Indian languages, reports India Times. This, together with the […]
Asia-Pacific search engine rankings for April 2008
comScore just released an interesting data about the search rankings in Asia-Pacific region. According to their data, Google and Yahoo were the regional leaders as “top search properties” followed by China’s Baidu. “Because Google and Yahoo! have a strong presence in many Asia-Pacific countries, they account for the majority of searches conducted in the overall […]
India ranks third biggest e-shopping nation online today
Recent Nielsen survey declares India the 3rd biggest online credi card users. According to the survery Indians …
Yahoo grows mobile search in Asia
Yahoo recently added oneSearch capability, a search service designed for mobile users, to nine mobile operators in Asia. Those mobile operators include, DiGi Telecommunications (Malaysia), Starhub (Singapore), Aircel Limited (India), BPL Mobile (India), Bharat Sanchar Nigam (India), PT Hutchison CP Telecom (Indonesia) PT Indosat (Indonesia), PT Excelcomindo Pratama (Indonesia) and PCCW Mobile (Hong Kong). Altogether […]
The sleeper awakes… slowly
It might not be a surprice but India is booming, the country might only be a sub-continent, but it is a mega-country to be in regards of internet usage, but the rise is slower than expected. According to a recent “India Online Overview report” done by eMarketer India has “only” reached 10.5 million broadband households […]
Google webmaster tools starts to think international
At least two major new features are arriving in Google’s webmaster tools console according to information from the SES San Jose conference and the official Google webmaster tools blog. The latter has announced support for the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) and a series of further enhancements are expected. IDNA enables webmasters to use […]
Yahoo tries to improve its relevance to India
The Business Standard reports on attempts that Yahoo is making to ‘improve its relevance to India’ by adding cities and listings portals. Both Yahoo Our City and Yahoo! India Maps are at the beta testing stage – but will help Yahoo’s India based users to search locations comprising of 170 cities, 4,785 towns and 220,000 […]
Google using Seedfund to invest in Indian startups
Red Herring reports that Google is using Seedfund.com to spread start up funds to new tech companies in India. The article can be found here.
Yahoo! opens research lab in India
The Business Standard of India reported that Yahoo! was opening a research lab in Bangalore, India. Yahoo is also starting their “Big Thinkers” lectures in India in January 2007.
Google links up with Bharti Airtel for mobile search in India
Leading Indian telco, Bharti Airtel has announced a strategic partnership with Google to offer mobile search in India. Google will incorporate mobile ads through its Adwords platform. The President of Bharti Airtel Ltd explains, “In India, mobile is fast outgrowing the growth of PCs. Mobile users outnumber PC users in India by a factor of […]