The Google for India Campaign mainly concentrated on the development of internet in rural areas.
Mr. Rajan Anandan discussed how Google has made internet evolve in India.
Mr. Sundar Pichai ( CEO, Google) Discussed how Google is working on setting up internet plants all over the country. Mr. Pichai discussed the success of Android One Smartphones which have helped women in rural areas interact with Internet.
Google is also going to launch it’s first Station for providing internet access to railway stations in Starting 2016.
Google is also planning to build a huge new campus in Bangalore & Hyderabad in the coming years.
The growth of smartphones has increased.
Today 3.4 Million smartphones are activated everyday. This, truly is an enormous scale. And by 2020, Google Estimates 5 billion Users for internet.
Mrs. Yehoshua discusses that Seatch has evolved to answer our needs.
The way we interact with our smartphones is very different from the way we interact with out computer.
Google wants to make sure that Google now has an input and responds as if we’re talking to a friend. You can also ask questions in hindi, as you can in english.
Searches in Mobile have overtaken searches in desktop.
India crossed them in May 2013 and are way ahead than other countries.
How Google is making Search In India Better
- Search works in Indian languages
- For any network including 2G
Voice queries have increased in India as well as other countries.
Google search is optimized for faster search resutlts by loading faster, decreasing the amount of data (images etc.) that needs to be loaded.
She also discusses that Cricket, which is one of India’s home game is gonna have a deeper search on Google, launching 2016.
Jen Firzpatrick discusses about the evolution of Mapping.
Now you can download particular areas on the Mpas app, take a look at 360 photos of historical places which are amazing.
Google has also worked for implementing Google offline for Delhi Commuters.
The New Delhi Offline app provides transport details for busses, metros and trains without the need of internet.
Google looks forward to improve Google Maps.
Eyal Manor (VP, Youtube, Engineering) comes out discussing how is first experience in India has been.
YouTube has got a 150% increase in mobile watch time over the past few years.
He discuses how one of the major content produced on YouTube is originated from India.
The Current infrastructure of India and the cost of internet is preventing from Google on developing YouTube for India.
The Implementation of YouTube Offline a coupe of years ago has also helped the users.
Instead of useres waiting for the videos buffering, they, can now make allof the videos available on YouTube offline.
YouTube FanFest, Comedy hunt etc. are things that they’ve done to increase the amount of people being content creators.
Marian Croak (VP Google Access) discusses how Google is working to provide universal access of Internet.
The State of Global Internet Access is very poor, so Google has partnered with various companies to bring billions of users to the internet.
Marian mentions about Project Loon. Google is testing these high altitude balloons to connect people in hard to reach regions that are sparsely populated to the internet.
Google is hoping to make this project, a successfull one in India.
As Sunder Discussed, Google is working on providing Internet acess on railway stations here in India which is going to be the largest, and fastest globally.
Google is willing to provide exceptional internet services. Google is working with Indian Railways and other Transports to do so.
Enters Caeser Sengupta ( VP Product Management).
Caeser starts off with talking about Android One. Android One phones are now over 20 countries. Android One is Google’s mission to bring the latest android updates as they come for just a few bucks.
The Latest Marshmallow has become more fluid, there are alot of improvements, from animations to battery life and to performance.
Ceaser says that Google Translate Translates more than a million words every second.
Google runs Translate Community so that Translate works better for everyone where people come forward in helping google improve their Translate Feature. They have run Translateathons to do so.
You can learn more at :
They demonstrate Translate’s new camera feature.
Google is working on Tap to translate so that you can translate from Hindi to English or vice versa and you can straightly copy and paste.
This service is in works and will be available in 2016.
Google has also reduced the size of language packs by 90%.
Ceaser also discusses how they’ve enhanced Chrome which loads fast by not loading the images.
Google is implementing ChromeBits so that people can use Chrome OS which is a stick on their displays.
The Chromebit will cost 7,999 Rupees.
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