Tuesday 27 September 2016

Sundar Pichai explains why Google is focusing hard on India

Today is a big day for Google for two reasons. Firstly, it's the company's 18th birthday, so it can now legally vote and smoke. Secondly, and possibly more importantly, it just held a massive event in India where it unveiled a bunch of new products relevant to the country including YouTube Go, new versions of Chrome and the Play store, the Google Station public Wi-Fi initiative, Google Assistant in Hindi, and more.

India is obviously a major opportunity for Google. There are over a billion people in the country, and more than 800,000 of them live in rural areas with limited access to the internet — less than a third of the population is online at all. But you don't have to be Indian, or even especially interested in Google's business...

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